The Uttar Pradesh government has issued an alert after a case of a new strain of coronavirus, recently found in the UK, was detected in a two-year-old girl, according to the Hindustan Times’ sister publication Hindustan.
The state health department has directed its officials and hospital staff to be more cautious; Hospitals have also been asked to be on high alert, Hindustan reported.
The UP health authorities have also ordered that people who have returned from abroad be told to remain in home quarantine for 28 days, even if their RT-PCR report is negative. Those found to be carrying the new coronavirus strain should remain in a separate isolation room, the state health department notice further said.
Hindustan further reported that as many as 565 people who returned from the UK to Uttar Pradesh after 9 December have been located. Five people were found on Wednesday and their samples were sent to CSIR, Delhi.
According to state authorities, the mobile phones of those who returned from the UK are switched off, making them difficult to trace, Hindustan reported.
Meanwhile, 14 more people have tested positive for the new British variant of the Sars-CoV-2 virus, the Union ministry of health and family welfare announced on Wednesday. The ministry said this based on the results of genome sequencing of the positive samples released by the laboratories of India’s Sars-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (Insacog).
So far, samples have been sequenced at seven of the 10 designated labs across the country: seven samples tested positive at NIMHANS, Bengaluru, two at CCMB, Hyderabad, and one at NIV, Pune, eight at NCDC, Delhi, one at IGIB , Delhi and one in NIBG, Kalyani (West Bengal).
With this, the total number of people who tested positive for the new UK variant of Covid-19 has reached 20.
Six cases of the new strain were detected on Tuesday, prompting the government to order genome sequencing of samples from all passengers who arrived in India on December 9-22 and tested positive for COVID-19 or were symptomatic. as surveillance and containment increased. strategy.
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