INDIAN BUMMER UK cases of Indian Covid variant DOUBLE in a week to 160 raising fears it could delay roadmap Updated: Apr 18 2021, 6:39 ET Invalid Date, UK cases of the Indian Covid variant have reportedly DOUBLED in a week raising fears its emergence could delay the roadmap to recovery. Professor Paul Hunter, an epidemiologist at the University of East Anglia, discovered the number of confirmed cases had risen from 79 to 160. �� 3 Environment Secretary George Eustice says there is no evidence the Indian variant is able to 'get around' vaccinesCredit: Getty And it's feared - as only around a quarter of identified cases undergo tests to identify individual strains - the true figure could be at least 400.