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4 More New Cases Of New Variant Of Coronavirus detected in India

 The Centre said, a total of 29 people in the country have now tested positive for the new UK variant of Covid-19 with four more cases to the list on Friday.

Out of the four new cases, three were detected in Bengaluru and one was from Hyderabad, the union health ministry said. So far, ten cases have been detected by labs in Delhi, ten by a Bengaluru lab, one in West Bengal, 3 in Hyderabad and 5 by the National Institute of Virology, Pune.

The strain was first detected in September and confirmed by the UK authorities in December. The first case of this new strain was found in India earlier this week.

The presence of the new UK variant has already been reported by Denmark, Netherland, Australia, Italy, Sweden, France, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, Japan, Lebanon and Singapore.

People tested positive with the new strain are being kept in isolation. Contact tracing is being done for co-travellers, family contacts and others.

From November 25 to December 23 midnight, about 33,000 passengers landed at various Indian airports from UK. All these passengers are being tracked and subjected by states and UTs to RT-PCR tests.

Several states have also announced night curfews and other restriction in view of the new strain.

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