Kejriwal urges Centre to ban all flights from UK over new Covid strain

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday demanded that the Centre ban all flights from the United Kingdom immediately in view of the emergence of a mutated variant of the coronavirus there.

The Union health ministry has called an urgent meeting of its Joint Monitoring Group on Monday to discuss the emergence of the new strain in the UK, which has led to a surge in the infection rate there.

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

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