Covid strain alert: Total 20 UK returnees to India tested positive for the new covid strain so far

New Delhi: Amid the rising fear of the new covid strain that was first detected in UK, the threat has entered the Indian territory with at least 20 UK returnees have tested positive for the new covid strain so far. The samples collected from all the returnees have so far been sequenced in seven of the 10 designated labs across the country – seven samples tested positive in NIMHANS, Bengaluru, two in CCMB, Hyderabad and one in NIV, Pune, eight in NCDC, Delhi, one in IGIB, Delhi and one in NIBG, Kalyani (West Bengal).

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Total six UK returnees had tested positive for the variant as announced by the Health Ministry on Tuesday.

All the infected people are now in isolation, while the health ministry said in a statement, adding that their fellow travelers and close contacts are being traced and quarantined. Genome sequencing on other samples is currently going on.

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“All these persons have been kept in single room isolation at designated health care facilities by respective state governments and their close contacts have also been put under quarantine,” the Union ministry said.

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