Noida woman 2nd in UP with new Covid strain
On Tuesday, a two-year-old girl in Meerut was found infected with the new strain of virus. But no need to panic, adopt precautions: Officials
LUCKNOW: A 33- year-old woman, who returned from the United Kingdom on December 18 to Gautam Buddha Nagar district (Noida), has been found infected with the new Covid-19 strain discovered in Britain, a health department officer said.
With this, the tally of people found infected with the new strain of the coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh has increased to two. On Tuesday, a two-year-old girl in Meerut was found infected with the new strain of Sars-Cov-2. She, along with her parents, had arrived from London.
The health department officer said the Noida woman was admitted in the isolation ward of the Government Institute of Medical Sciences, Greater Noida.
LUCKNOW: A 33- year-old woman, who returned from the United Kingdom on December 18 to Gautam Buddha Nagar district (Noida), has been found infected with the new Covid-19 strain discovered in Britain, a health department officer said.
With this, the tally of people found infected with the new strain of the coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh has increased to two. On Tuesday, a two-year-old girl in Meerut was found infected with the new strain of Sars-Cov-2. She, along with her parents, had arrived from London.
The new variant of the SarsCoV-2 is believed to spread faster than its previous strains.
The health department officer said the Noida woman was admitted in the isolation ward of the Government Institute of Medical Sciences, Greater Noida. The samples of her family members were sent for laboratory tests and all of them tested negative for Sars-CoV-2, the officer said.
The woman had returned alone from UK. The Gautam Buddha Nagar health authorities have put the family in the home quarantine. Under a contact-tracing drive, the samples of the close contacts of the family and secondary contacts were collected and sent for tests, the officer said.
Additional chief secretary, Health and Family Welfare, Amit Mohan Prasad said the state health and family welfare department had sent samples of 2,500 people, who had returned from United Kingdom after December 9, for laboratory tests.
So far, ten of these people had tested positive for Covid- 19 and their samples had been sent to
Indian Council of Medical Research laboratory in New Delhi for genome sequencing to confirm if they were infected with the new strain of Covid, he added. The new strain was found in the two samples from Meerut and Gautam Buddha Nagar, he said.
A total of 2,112 samples had tested negative, he said.
Prasad said there was no need to panic. Rather, people should adopt the same precautions that they had been following after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in March, he added.
They should wear facemasks in public, maintain social distancing and wash their hands at frequent intervals, he said.