The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is monitoring at least 1,593 people, who arrived in Mumbai between November 25 and December 22 from the UK, where a more contiguous strain of Covid-19 was found. The civic body has prepared a list of the residential locations of these people and divided them according to their local administrative districts.
District officials have been ordered to contact returnees, monitor their health, dispatch a medical team if necessary, and also prescribe reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction tests if necessary. Positive samples will be sent to the National Institute of Virology in Pune for genome sequencing to identify the new strain.
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Suresh Kakani, Additional Municipal Commissioner for BMC (Health), said: “So far, through examinations at the airport, we have not found symptomatic Covid-19 patients among passengers from Europe and the Middle East who are quarantined in hotels. The returnees from the UK will be closely monitored and our teams have started to follow up with them. They will also have to go through Covid-19 testing if necessary. “
BMC cited the new strain on Monday, saying that passengers from the UK, Europe and Middle Eastern countries will be placed in mandatory quarantine for seven days after landing in Mumbai. Your stay can be increased by another seven days if you test positive for Covid-19.
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