Due to UK coming across a new mutant strain of the highly infectious disease COVID-19, India has suspended flights from the country.
The new strain is reportedly 70 percent more infectious than the one that caused the pandemic. It goes without saying that this has worried people.
Especially because this terrifying news has come after vaccine for the coronavirus was announced; this latest update has left people feeling quite uneasy about what the future holds.
Those who were eagerly waiting for 2020 to get over are now questioning whether 2021 will change anything.?
Since humour is almost everyone's defense mechanism these days, thanks to the meme culture, social media was flooded with jokes on the same.?
People said that the novel coronavirus knew that we were waiting for 2020 to finish, so it was waiting to surprise us with another gift - the new strain.?
Some users also mentioned that this is just the coronavirus' new way of bringing in the new year.?
The hashtag #COVID20 is trending on Twitter.?
The flight suspension from the UK came into effect on December 22 and will remain in place till December 31.?The ministry also added that as a measure of precaution, passengers coming to India from the UK in all transit flights, should be subject to mandatory RT-PCR test on arrival at the airports concerned.
The United Kingdom has shut itself from the rest of Europe after they cut transportation over fears of the new coronavirus strain.