With 15 more individuals testing positive for the latest UK strain of Sars-CoV-2, the coronavirus-causing virus (Covid-19), the cumulative number of UK returnees testing positive for the country’s mutated virus has reached 73, the Union Ministry of Health said on Wednesday.
The results are based on the genome sequencing of positive samples released by the Indian Sars-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium labs that the Centre has specifically created for the purpose of monitoring any kind of mutations in the virus.
“The total number of cases infected with the new strain of the novel coronavirus first reported in the UK now stands at 73,” the ministry said.
All these people were held in single-room isolation by the respective state governments in designated health care facilities. Their close connections were also put under quarantine, said the ministry.
“The situation is under careful watch and regular advice is being provided to the states for enhanced surveillance, containment, testing and dispatch of samples to INSACOG labs,” said the health ministry in a statement
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