Health Secretary reviews status of passengers coming from UK to India
Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan has reviewed the status of passengers coming from UK to India and found positive in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Goa, Punjab, Gujarat and Kerala and their response measures in a meeting held through Video Conferencing.
The Standard Operating Procedure issued by Ministry for Epidemiological Surveillance and Response in the context of new variant of SARS-CoV-2 virus detected in United Kingdom was discussed in detail in the meeting.
The States and Union Territories were advised to access the details of passengers from UK to India from the online portal AIR-SUVIDHA and Bureau of Immigration.
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Efforts on to locate 602 people who came to Goa from U.K., UAE; Meghalaya bars entry of travellers from U.K.
Rajesh Bhushan, Union Health Secretary, reviewed the status of passengers coming from the U.K. to India and found positive in the States/UTs of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Goa, Punjab, Gujarat and Kerala, and the States’ response measures, in a meeting held through video conference on Wednesday.
Union Health Secretary reviews status of passengers coming from UK
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Published: Thursday, December 24, 2020, 8:46 [IST]
New Delhi, Dec 24: Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan reviewed the status of passengers coming from UK to India and found positive in the States/UTs of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Goa, Punjab, Gujarat and Kerala and their response measures in a meeting held through Video Conferencing today, in the presence of DG, ICMR, Health Secretaries from the States/UT, NHM MD,Ms Arti Ahuja, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr Sujeet Singh, Director, NCDC, and other senior health officials.
Rajesh Bhushan
The Standard Operating Procedure issued by this Ministry on 22.12.2020 for Epidemiological Surveillance and Response in the context of new variant of SARS-CoV-2 virus detected in United Kingdom was discussed in detail in the meeting.
Mutant Covid: Six labs identified for genome sequencing of positive UK flyers
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New Delhi, Dec 23 : The Union Health Ministry on Wednesday reviewed the status of passengers coming from the UK to India and directed states and Union Territories to send samples of those found coronavirus positive to six laboratories identified for genome sequencing.
The laboratories are: the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in New Delhi, the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad, the DBT-Institute of Life Sciences in Bhubaneswar, DBT-InStem-NCBS in Bengaluru, the DBT-National Institute of Biomedical Genomics in West Bengal and the ICMR-National Institute of Virology in Pune.
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