A CCP virus variant first detected in India has been “out-competing” the Kent variant in some areas in the UK, a British medical expert has said. Paul Hunter, professor in medicine at the University of East Anglia, said the Indian COVID-19 variant of concern “clearly has been out-competing” the Kent variant, also known as the UK variant, in a number of areas around the UK. According to data from Public Health England (PHE), cases of the variant nearly doubled from 520 to 1,313 this week in the UK. Four people have now died from the variant as of May 12. “Indeed it’s now in most regions of the UK, with the possible exception of Yorkshire and Humber in the Northeast, which seem to have very few cases so far,” Hunter told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Friday. He said the Indian variant, also known as B1617.2, “seems to be …