Health Ministry Confirms 73 New UK COVID-19 Strain Cases

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India on the 6th of January, reported 13 new cases of the new variant of the coronavirus, pushing the tally to 71.

The number of cases of the new strain, first discovered in the United Kingdom, was 58 till the 5th of January.

“All these persons have been kept in single-room isolation in designated health care facilities by respective state governments,” the health ministry had said in a statement. “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.”

Genome sequencing can provide crucial information about how a virus is evolving or if new variants are emerging, how the virus is spreading from one place to another and whether cases in a given cluster are linked to one another.

From November 25 to December 23, 2020, about 33,000 passengers arrived at various airports in India from the UK. All of them are being tracked and tested via RT-PCR or reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction tests.

India suspended flight services from the UK on December 22 to contain the spread of the coronavirus. If the ban is not extended, the services will resume on January 8. The Centre has also issued guidelines for testing and surveillance of passengers arriving from the United Kingdom following the resumption of the flights.

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