As the UK inches closer towards the coveted 'freedom day' of June 21st, the rumblings of a potentially more infectious Indian variant of Covid have become louder.

This pattern of a new coronavirus threat emerging just as the country is reaching lockdown easing dates has been playing out for the last few months.

It began in mid-December, when Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, told the Commons that more than 1,000 cases of the Kent variant had been found in 60 local authorities, largely in the south of England. 

Despite warnings of this terrifying new deadly variant, second wave levels never reached the excess deaths of the first wave. It later emerged the Kent variant was no more deadly, and that the vaccines worked very well against it. King's College estimated it was probably about 35 per cent more infectious – far lower than the public was originally told.

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