India registered five new cases of mutated coronavirus disease on Thursday, bringing the total case count to 25, the Health Ministry said.
Of the five new cases, four have been tracked by the National Institute of Virology in Pune and the CSIR Institute for Genomics and Integrative Biology in Delhi. The infected people have been kept in physical isolation in state health facilities.
“A total of 25 UK mutant virus cases detected in India after genome sequencing. Four new cases found by NIV, Pune and one new case sequenced at IGIB, Delhi. The 25 people are in physical isolation in the health facilities, “said the official of the Ministry of Health, reported the ANI news agency.
India had detected 14 new cases on Wednesday, of which eight were detected at the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) in Delhi, four at the Hospital of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in Bengaluru, and one each. at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) in Delhi and at the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBG) in Kalyani, West Bengal.
On Tuesday, six people – three from Karnataka and one from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh – who returned from the UK were found to be carrying the new variant.
Those detected with the mutant strain are kept in single-room isolation in state-designated health care facilities. His close contacts are also being quarantined even as a comprehensive contact tracing has been initiated for fellow travelers, family contacts and others, according to the government.
The new variant of the virus detected in Great Britain has caused widespread concern and travel restrictions around the world.
The variant of the coronavirus, which could be up to 70% more transmissible, is spreading rapidly in Britain, although it is not believed to be more deadly or cause more serious illness, according to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his board of advisers scientists. .
About 33,000 passengers arrived from the UK at various airports in India from November 25 to December 23, according to government statistics. Authorities have begun performing the gold standard RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction) test on these passengers in batches, although tracking them all is becoming a difficult task as hundreds of people provide directions. You hang around and turn off your phones.
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