Add India to UK travel ban list to stop Covid variant, urges scientist

Indian coronavirus variant has potential to scupper' lockdown easing, says professor of immunology

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India should be placed on the UK's red list" for travel after the discovery of a new coronavirus variant, according to a leading scientist.

Prof Danny Altmann, from Imperial College London, said it was mystifying" and confounding" that those flying in from the country were not required to stay in a hotel.