Dozens of people have been quarantined inside an apartment block in Germany for the last two days after one person tested positive for the Indian variant of Covid. However, it is not yet clear whether any of those people are infected with the Indian variant since genetic sequencing - which is used to detect variants - takes up to a week to complete. 189 people living in these two tower blocks in Germany have been locked down since Sunday after a single case of the Indian Covid variant was found thereWork is also underway to trace the contacts of all those living in the tower blocks. While Covid cases in the UK are still falling overall due largely to the success of the vaccine roll-out, cases of the Indian variant have quadrupled in a fortnight. He said 70 per cent of those above the age of 60 have received one shot, about one-quarter of them are fully vaccinated.

Source: Daily Mail May 18, 2021 16:19 UTC