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7 UK returnees to India test positive for new strain of coronavirus
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2020-12-29 06:05:53 GMT2020-12-29 14:05:53(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
NEW DELHI, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) As many as six Indian nationals have tested positive with the new variant genome SARS-CoV-2 virus, the federal health ministry confirmed on Tuesday.
According to an official statement, three samples tested positive in the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences (NIMHANS) in southern city of Bengaluru, two at the Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB) in southern city of Hyderabad, and one at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in south-western city of Pune.
All of them had recently flown in from Britain. All these persons have been kept in single room isolation in designated Health Care facilities by respective state governments. Their close contacts have also been put under quarantine, said the statement.
CCMB calls for enhanced genome sequencing
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‘Crucial to launch an extensive surveillance to assess the spread of new virus strain’
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‘Crucial to launch an extensive surveillance to assess the spread of new virus strain’
With confirmation of the presence of the new variant of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 in two cases referred to it, the Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB) on Tuesday called for expediting viral genome sequencing efforts and surveillance to asses the extent of its spread.
“There is a need to expedite the viral genome sequencing efforts to further check the prevalence of the new variant in India. We have used the traditional ‘Sanger’ sequencing method as well as the modern Next-Gen sequencing tools in testing for the presence here from samples collected among international travellers from United Kingdom,” said CCMB scientist Divya Tej Sowpati leading the coronavirus genome sequencing efforts at
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