UK Conducts COVID-19 Testing at Leicester School After 3 Cases of Indian Variant Found

People walk past a sign directing to a walk-in mobile COVID-19 testing centre in Spinney Hill Park in Leicester, England, on June 28, 2020. Darren Staples/Getty Images

UK health authorities are conducting further testing at a school after three cases of the new Indian variant of the CCP virus were found in Leicester.

Professor Ivan Browne, Leicester’s director of public health, said on Wednesday that Public Health England (PHE) had been notified of three cases of the variant known as VUI-21-APR-01, which was first identified in India.