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Maharashtra on Wednesday witnessed a significant rise in coronavirus cases, with more than 8,000 new infections coming to light in a single day.

The rules affect UK residents and Irish nationals travelling from 33 countries on the so-called “red list”.

This new variant has been identified as a set of multiple changes and mutations in the ‘Spike’ protein which the SARS-CoV 2 uses to infect human cells