UK PM says need to be very careful with Indian coronavirus variant

LONDON

: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday the government needed to handle carefully the emergence of new coronavirus strains first found in India which have since started to spread in the

United Kingdom

.



"I think we've got to be very

careful

about that. We're doing a huge amount, obviously, to make sure that when we do find outbreaks of the

Indian variant

that we do surge

testing

, that we do door-to-door testing," he told reporters.