Covid new strain in India: Six passengers, who returned from the United Kingdom, had been identified to be positive for the new strain of Coronavirus that was traced in that nation earlier this month, according to a statement by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. This has come immediately after the Government of India had banned passenger flight from London and other components of the UK. A lockdown has been enforced in the UK immediately after it announced that the new strain of Covid-19 went “out of control”.
So far, samples of 3 UK returnees have been tested and identified positive for new Covid strain in NIMHANS, Bengaluru, two in Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad and 1 in National Institute of Virology, Pune. All six infected persons have been kept in single area isolation, the Union Health Ministry has revealed.
All passengers, who returned from the UK, had been screened and tested for Covid at airports across India. The samples of these who tested positive had been sent to the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) for the sequence study to come across out no matter if the new variant of Covid has entered into the nation or not. The new variant of Covid is reported to be 70 per cent more contagious.
During the Covid pandemic Air India, Vistara, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic have operated flights amongst London and Indian cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, and Amritsar below an air-bubble agreement amongst the governments of the two nations.
Meanwhile, India has reported 16,432 new COVID-19 instances, 24,900 recoveries, and 252 deaths in the final 24 hours, according to specifics offered by the Union Health Ministry on Tuesday. The total Coronavirus instances in the nation are 1,02,24,303, with active Covid instances standing at 2,68,581, total recoveries reached 98,07,569, and the Death toll of 1,48,153.