The Indian News
Published by: Edward Era Barbacena
India has confirmed that six cases of variant coronavirus in travelers from the United Kingdom, officials said on Tuesday.
India is now one of the counties that imposed travel restrictions to and from the United Kingdom.
The variant coronavirus has proven to spread and infects humans on a more rapid rate than the covid-19 that originated in Wuhan. It is not yet confirmed if it is more virulent and thorough studies about the mutated coronavirus is being conducted in Great Britain where it began.
India has the second highest cases of covid-19 next to the United States with 10,224,797 recorded cases and deaths of 148,190 as of December 29, 2020.
Dr. A Fathahudeen of a health expert who has been treating patient with covid-19 told the media that the new strain of coronavirus may cause havoc and throw the health care system out of control.
Health officials in india have started contact tracing close contact and family members of the six travelers from Great Britain who were found positive of the variant coronavirus.
It had become mandatory that all passengers from the United Kingdom to undergo RT-PCR test at all airports in the country. The samples that are found to be positive, will then be genome sequenced by the government-run labs in order to detects the mutated coronavirus.
More than 33,000 passengers arrived in India from Great Britain over the passed months. About 114 found to be positive of covid-19 - their samples have been sent to 10 different labs for genome sequencing.
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