India says UK Covid-19 variant cases declining, local variant up in some states

Mortuary workers load the body of a person, who died from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), to an ambulance for cremation, at a Hospital in New Delhi, India May 5, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
India has seen fewer cases of infections by the coronavirus variant first spotted in Britain in recent weeks but more by a local variant in some states, Sujeet Kumar, the director of the National Centre for Disease Control, said on Wednesday.