Thu. Mar 28th, 2024

New Delhi: Rajesh Bhushan, the Union Health Secretary on Wednesday reviewed the status of people who tested positive for COVID-19 after flying down from the United Kingdom to India, amid the scare of a new strain of Coronavirus.

The states for which the point by point survey was completed included Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Goa, Punjab, Gujarat, and Kerala.

A few people have tested positive for COVID-19 however the aftereffects of their genome sequence tests, which can affirm whether they convey the new strain of virus recognized in the UK, are as yet anticipated.

The secretary additionally examined in detail the standard operating procedures identified with the epidemiological observation and reaction with regards to another variation of SARS-CoV-2 infection distinguished in European nations that are being accounted for to be more irresistible and are influencing the younger populace.

The SOP had said that every one of the individuals who have shown up in India since November 25 and tried positive for COVID-19 should be subjected to spike quality RTPCR test to evaluate whether they are caused by the mutant SARS CoV 2.

In the virtual gathering on Saturday, the states were directed to get the insights about travelers from the UK to India from the online entrance AIR-SUVIDHA and Bureau of Immigration and were additionally approached to send the examples of those discovered positive to the labs recognized for genome sequencing.

The rundown of six distinguished research facilities alongside the contact subtleties of their nodal officials was additionally imparted to the states.

These labs incorporate CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, CSIR-Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, DBT-Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, DBT-In Stem-NCBS, Bangalore, DBT-National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani, West Bengal, and ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune.

The Union Health and Welfare Ministry said that the number of such assigned labs would increase after some time and their subtleties would be imparted to states.