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India Reports 13 More Fresh Cases Of New Strain Of Coronavirus, Total 71 Cases have Been Detected So Far

 The Union Health Ministry on Wednesday said that a total of 71 people have tested positive  for the new UK variant of SARS-CoV-2 in India so far. There has been an increase of 13 new cases in the last 24 hours. On  Tuesday, the total number of cases was 58.


According to the Health Ministry, 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.

Comprehensive contact tracing has been initiated for co-travellers, family contacts, and others. Genome sequencing on other specimens is going on, the ministry said.

On December 29, a total of six UK returnees were found to be positive with the new variant genome. These were the first cases reported in India.

The Union Health Ministry had earlier said," the situation is under careful watch and regular advice is being provided to the states for enhanced surveillance, containment, testing and dispatch of samples to INSACOG labs".

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

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

Meanwhile, the health ministry said that there is a steady decline in the number of daily deaths recorded in the country.

"Less than 300 new deaths are being recorded in the country from last 12 days. Only one new death per million population is reported in India in the last 7 days". The daily cases in India have been below 20,000 for the last few days. 18,088 new cases were registered in the last 24 hours.

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