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Mumbai: The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Friday announced that a total of 82 persons have been found with the new mutant variant of SARS- CoV-2 virus so far.
Those detected with the more transmissible UK coronavirus mutant strain have been kept in isolation in health facilities by respective state governments and their close contacts have also been placed under quarantine.
“A comprehensive contact-tracing exercise has been initiated for their co-travellers, family members and others and genome sequencing on other specimens is going on,” the Ministry added.
As per the report by the Central government, over 4,800 people have been traced who travelled between India and the UK after the cases of infection by new variant came to light.