37 UK returnees test corona positive in Goa
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New Delhi: A member of Goa s Health Department team collects swab samples for COVID-19 testing at Shiroli village of Sattari Taluka in North Goa district on June 11, 2020. (Photo: IANS) Image Source: IANS News
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Panaji, Dec 29 : Thirty seven passengers out of 979, who travelled from the UK from December 9 till the midnight of December 22, have tested positive for Covid-19. The state government awaits reports from Pune s National Institute of Virology for confirmation of the mutant strain among the Covid positive passengers.
The BMC has cited the new COVID-19 strain asthe reason to compulsorily quarantine passengers from the UK, Europe and Middle Eastern countries for seven days after they land in Mumbai. Their stay may increase by another seven days if they test positive for COVID-19.
The civic body in Mumbai has prepared a list of individuals and the the residential locations and then divided them as per their local administrative wards.
The ward officials have been directed to contact the returnees, check their health, send a medical team if needed and also prescribe reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction tests if required. The positive samples will be sent to Pune’s National Institute of Virology for genome sequencing to identify the new strain.
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UK flyers’ genome sequencing results in 2-3 days: NCDC (IANS Exclusive)
By IANS| Published: 24th December 2020 5:13 am IST
By Aakanksha Khajuria
New Delhi, Dec 23 : The National Centre of Disease Control (NCDC) said on Wednesday that the results of the genome sequencing of samples of those who tested positive after coming to India from the United Kingdom, to ascertain if they were carrying the mutant coronavirus strain, would take at least 2-3 more days to come.
The British government had recently announced that the newly identified strain of the virus found in its population is up to 70 per cent more transmissible and the situation is “out of control”. This prompted Indian authorities to suspend flights to and from the UK between December 23 and December 31.