5 new cases of UK coronavirus strain found in India, total 25 cases

The Centre on Thursday said that five more cases of the mutant Coronavirus from the UK have been detected in the country taking the total tally of such cases to 25 so farOut of the five new cases four have been found by the National Institute of Virology in Pune and one by CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in DelhiAll 25 persons are in physical isolation in health facilities the Health Ministry said in a statementOf the 20 other cases eight have been registered at National Centre for Disease Control in Delhi 7 at National Institute of Mental Health and NeuroSciences in Bangalore two at Cellular and Molecular Biology in HyderabadBesides one each has been logged at National Institute of Biomedical Genomics near Kolkata National Institute of Virology in Pune and CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in DelhiOn Tuesday a total of six UK returnees were found to be positive with the new variant genome the central government had announced and added that all these people have been kept in a single room isolation in designated health care facilitiesThese were the first cases to be reported by the country that has the second highest number of cases after the United StatesThe British Government had recently announced that the newly identified strain of the virus found in their population is up to 70 per cent more transmissibleIt is important to note that the presence of the new UK variant has already been reported by Denmark Netherlands Australia Italy Sweden France Spain Switzerland Germany Canada Japan Lebanon and SingaporePursuant to announcement by British Government Indian government had taken cognisance of the reports of mutant variant and put in place a proactive and preventive strategy to detect and contain the mutant variantIt included temporary suspension of all flights coming from UK with effect from the midnight of December 23 till 31 It was later extended to January 7 The coronavirusinduced suspension of scheduled international passenger flights other than air bubble ones has been extended till January 31From November 25 to December 23 midnight about 33000 passengers disembarked at various Indian airports from the UK All these passengers are being tracked and subjected by states and UTs to RTPCR testsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever