The British government is “anxious” about the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus variant that was first detected in India, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday. Asked how worried Britons should be by the spread of the mutant virus, Johnson said, “It is a variant of concern, we are anxious about it, it has been spreading.” Three types of the Indian variant have been identified in the UK, one of which, known as B.1.617.2, was designated a “variant of concern” last week. Public Health England said it is “at least as transmissible” as B.1.1.7, which is known as the UK variant or the Kent variant. “At the moment there is a very wide range of scientific opinion about what could happen. We want to make sure that we take all the prudential, all the cautious steps now that we could take, so there are meetings going on today to consider …