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India Reports 8 More Fresh Cases Of New Strain Of Coronavirus, Total 90 Cases have Been Detected So Far

 The Union Ministry Of Health and Family Welfare announced on Friday that a total of 90 persons have been detected positive with the new strain of Covid-19.

On January 8, the Ministry had said that the tally for the new variant of coronavirus has reached 82 in India.

All the people who have tested positive for the new variant of the virus were kept in single room isolation at designated health facilities by the respective state governments, the ministry had earlier stated.

Their close contacts have also been put under quarantine. A comprehensive contact tracing exercise has been initiated for their co-travellers, family members and others. Genome sequencing on other specimens is going on, the ministry said.

The Union Health Ministry further stated that the situation is under careful watch and regular advice was being provided to the states for enhanced surveillance, containment, testing and dispatch of samples to labs.

The flights from India to UK which were suspended in amid scare of new strain of Covid-19, were resumed on January 6.

The first flight from UK landed in Delhi on Friday with 246 passengers. Out of 246 passengers  two were tested positive for Covid-19 when tested on arrival.

On Friday, Delhi government issued an order saying "those passengers who are arriving from UK and are found negative shall be kept in compulsory institutional quarantine for a period of 7 days followed by 7 days of home quarantine".

The Civil Aviation Ministry has revised the number of flights allowed to operate between India and UK and brought down to 30, from 70 till January 23. A detailed instruction has also been issued by the Union Health Ministry for passengers arriving in India from UK.

On December 29, a total of six UK returnees were found positive with the new strain of Covid-19. These were the first cases reported in India.

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.

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

Around 18,222 new Covid-19 cases were reported in India in last 24 hours that took the overall tally to 1,04,31,639 on Saturday. The country also reported 228 deaths, which  took the death toll of the country to 1,50,798, the active cases in the country is 2,24,190 and total 1,00,55,935 people have already recovered from the virus.

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