New Mutant Strain: #COVID20 Trends On Twitter As People Make Memes On Waiting For 2021

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.

Also read: Amid The Scare Of Highly Infectious Mutant Strain, 5 Coming From UK Test Positive For COVID-19

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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.

#COVID20 reading everybody post about how 2021 is gonna be their comeback year pic.twitter.com/DaA7jDocqx

¡ª HM03 (@surffffin_jeff) December 21, 2020

Here we go again...#COVID20 pic.twitter.com/wKWNVHev1r

¡ª Srudyuti Dey (@srudyuti_dey) December 21, 2020

#COVID20 & #CoronavirusStrain Trending on Twitter.
Me to Earth ?: pic.twitter.com/F4faEQZM1d

¡ª Adarsh Kumar Gupta (@adarsh_018) December 21, 2020

#COVID20 is trending
Me: pic.twitter.com/no9JZTZuX4

¡ª ?? (@Al_Dana_233) December 21, 2020

UK ?? announces #COVID20 Everyone in the world: pic.twitter.com/tR5TqpiJqn

¡ª Nakul Chouksey (@realnakul) December 22, 2020

#COVID20

F for My English brothers pic.twitter.com/pQLoIuJWhB

¡ª Left.Regime (@Regime2121) December 21, 2020

#mutation #UKlockdown #COVID20
People :-Nothing fun
let's do something stormy/enjoy

Corona 2.0 :- sure dude ? pic.twitter.com/P5cDhWIPIG

¡ª Ayushi Shukla (@itsayushishukla) December 21, 2020

#CoronavirusStrain#COVID20 to Covid19 be like : pic.twitter.com/ktmgovmBDx

¡ª Biswanath Behera (@_Biswa_nath) December 22, 2020

#COVID20

**Open it? pic.twitter.com/COrgdJJ4ZD

¡ª Prof. Snape (@_Fuhrer_King) December 21, 2020

#COVID20
Everyone: making memes about how 2021 will be even worse than 2020.

God: pic.twitter.com/5w0WGSGeZb

¡ª cherry (@Cherry0994) December 21, 2020

*UK PM Boris Jhonson confirms mutation of Coronavirus with higher spread rate*
People to 2021:#COVID20 pic.twitter.com/MZQa5ihVsj

¡ª Taruni (@its_taironical) December 21, 2020

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.