Boris Johnson is 'anxious' as Covid-19 variant found in India spreads in UK

Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitted Thursday that his government was "anxious" about the coronavirus variant first identified in India, as the number of UK cases of the strain more than doubled in a week.

The UK government's scientific advisers were meeting Thursday to discuss the variant amid growing concerns it could jeopardize England's plan to lift all legal limits on social contact from June 21. Johnson said he remained "cautiously optimistic" about England's plan to drop restrictions but that his government was "ruling nothing out."