Just when India launches the world's largest vaccination drive in the hope to bring the COVID-19 pandemic to an end the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned that the emerging coronavirus mutations can worsen the pandemic. A new COVID-19 strain recently discovered in the United Kingdom has been found to be more contagious than the previous variants. Estimated to have emerged in September 2020 the B.1.1.7 variant has quickly become the dominant circulating SARS-CoV-2 variant in England. It new more contagious variant has also been detected in over 30 countries including the United States. In its