Vaccinated & Covid-19-recovered, yet woman becomes Rajasthan’s first Delta+ case

In the first Delta Plus case in Rajasthan a 65yearold woman who recovered from Covid19 in May and had undergone both doses of vaccination has tested positive with the variant With this Rajasthan became the ninth state in the country to register the new virus strainAccording to Bikanerrsquos PBM Hospital Superintendent Parmendra Sirohi ldquoThe patientrsquos sample was sent to NIV on May 31 and after 25 days the state government received the reports which were then sent to Bikaner district collector for further actionrdquo Bikaner CMHO OP Chahar said ldquoSpecial instructions have been issued for tracing in and around the residence of the woman All those people who tested positive in the area in the last one month will be tested againrdquoThe Rajasthan government is taking this issue seriously Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said that there will be no laxity in services and the new guidelines will ensure that the Delta Plus variant does not spreadGujarat to adopt measuresThe Department of Health and Family Welfare DoH of the Union Ministry of Health on Friday asked Gujarat Chief Secretary CS Anil Mukim to adopt immediate containment measures in Surat district where the new variant has been foundAccording to the information available even the Maharashtra administration found that out of the 20 persons identified in Maharashtra to be infected with the Delta Plus variant two had a travel history to SuratThe Indian SARSCoV2Genomics Consortium INASCOG the consortium of laboratories has been entrusted to not only carry out the whole genome sequencing of the Coronavirus and its variants but has also been told to give timely inputs on appropriate public health response in regions where the variant has been foundKarnataka on alertRaising concern over the intensity of the second wave not declining in neighbouring Maharashtra and Kerala Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Friday directed officials to intensify surveillance on border areas to keep track of passengers arriving from these states ldquoWe need to subject everyone who arrives from Maharashtra and Kerala to tests as in these states Covid cases are still on the rise and cases related to the Delta Plus mutant were also recorded more in number in these statesrdquoLockdown in Jammu marketThe biggest grain market in Jammu wore a deserted look on Saturday as the local tradersrsquo body decided to continue the weekend lockdown amid the detection of the first case of the Covid19 Delta Plus variant in the province The Jammu and Kashmir administration on June 20 announced the lifting of the weekend curfew from eight districts including Jammu owing to a significant improvement in the Covid19 situationOver 48k cases 1k deathsWitnessing a slight dip India reported 48698 new Covid19 cases and 1183 deaths in the last 24 hours The total caseload rose to 30183143 as India crossed the mark of over three crore cases on Wednesday becoming the second country after the US to hit the three crore markIndia achieves milestone 40 crore tests ICMRIndia has achieved the milestone of conducting 40 crore Covid19 tests with the average of more than 18 lakh tests per day in the month of June the Indian Council of Medical Research said ldquoThis has been enabled by rapidly increasing testing infrastructure and capacity across the countryrdquo the ICMR said in a statement adding that this was done by leveraging technology and facilitating innovation in affordable diagnostic kits30183143Total No of cases in the country as of Saturday394493Total no of deaths due to the virus in india29193085Patients recovered and discharged in india as of SaturdayThis 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