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British woman coming from Kuala Lumpur tests Covid positive at Kolkata airport

State Health Department sources said that whether she had been affected by the BF.7 sub-variant or not, would be clear only after the genome sequencing report is available. Her specimen has been sent to Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine for that purpose

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A British citizen, currently residing in Australia, was detected Covid-19 positive at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport here after she arrived there from Kuala Lumpur by an Air Asia Flight early on Monday, officials said.

The woman, was slated to go to Bodh Gaya from Kolkata. After she was detected Covid-19 positive in the random RT-PCR test, she was immediately isolated and sent to the Bailgate Infectious Disease Hospital in north Kolkata.

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