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India’s tally for new strain of Coronavirus touches 71

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January 5, 2021
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New Delhi, Jan 05: As many as 71 people in India have been identified as carrying the new variant of coronavirus strain in India so far.

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All these persons have been kept in single room isolation in designated Health Care facilities by respective state governments.Their close contacts have also been put under quarantine. Comprehensive contact tracing has been initiated for co-travellers, family contacts and others. Genome sequencing on other specimens is going on, the ministry said.


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.


The new variant has already been reported by several countries including Denmark, the Netherlands, Australia, Italy, Sweden, France, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, Japan, Lebanon and Singapore.

Further, all the international passengers who have arrived in India between December 9 and 22, if symptomatic and tested positive for COVID-19 will be subjected to genome sequencing as part of the Centre’s strategyto detect the mutated variant of coronavirus in them.


Others will be followed up by the respective state and district surveillance officers and will be tested as per the ICMR guidelines (even if asymptomatic)between 5th and 10th day, according to the Union Health Ministry’s guidance document on genomic sequencing.


Further, epidemiological surveillance of the passengers, who have arrived in India since November 23 will be conducted in the community through active follow up. Besides, standard operating protocol for states and UTs to tackle the mutant variant of SARS-CoV-2 was issued on December 22.

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