New strain of COVID-19: Kejriwal asks Centre to ban all flights from UK

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday demanded that Centre ban all flights from UK immediately in view of emergence of a mutated variant of coronavirus re. Union Health Ministry has called an urgent meeting of its Joint Monitoring Group on Monday to discuss emergence of new strain in UK, which has led to a surge in infection rate re.

"New mutation of coron virus has emerged in UK, which is a super-spreer. I urge central govt to ban all flights from UK immediately," Kejriwal tweeted.

A number of European countries have banned flights from UK as British government warned that potent new strain of virus was "out of control" and imposed a stringent new stay-at-home lockdown from Sunday. 

(Im Credits: PTI)