India has reported 13 more people infected with the mutant UK coronavirus strain in the last 24 hours. The Union Health Ministry stated that the total number of new coronavirus strain now stands 71 in India. On the other hand India had reported a total of 18,088 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours.
The Union health ministry has asked states to fast-track contact tracing of these positive cases, and isolate and test the symptomatic contacts so as to curb the spread of infection that is known to be at least 70% more infectious than the original virus.