Mumbai, cities under night curfew from Tue as UK reports new virus strain

Maharashtra will from Tuesday put Mumbai and other significant metropolitan areas beneath curfew from eleven pm to six am until January five to counter a risk from a new pressure of the coronavirus in Britain, said several reports.

The state will also impose 14 times mandatory institutional quarantine for individuals returning from Europe and Middle East to the state. Returnees from other international locations coming to the state will also have to be dwelling quarantined.

Information agency PTI described that Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray made the decision on the evening curfew following a conference with his advisors in Mumbai.

India will suspend flights from and to the British isles setting up Tuesday midnight until December 31, signing up for other folks in isolating the European country.

A mutant pressure of the coronavirus spreading speedily in the U.K. led Primary Minister Boris Johnson to clamp down on holiday break visits at dwelling and overseas above the weekend. Airlines shares tumbled as Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium shut their borders to the previous European Union state, with other folks making ready to comply with go well with, described Bloomberg.

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