How India's Covid task force is prepping to curb new UK virusThe country's national task force on Covid-19 held a meeting yesterday over the new coronavirus strain that was first discovered in the United Kingdom and discussed surveillance strategies to detect and curb the highly contagious infection.Over 50 samples of UK returnees are currently being sequenced at six labs across India to find out if they have the mutant variant and district surveillance officers are identifying passengers who have arrived from the country in the last one month, as per reports.India's task force also agreed on the need for routine genomic surveillance to track the mutant strain of Covid-19 and decided to ensure that apart from the UK returnees, samples of 5%.