Tag: Uk Returnees

New Delhi: The Central government said on Saturday that more than 50 samples of returnees from the United Kingdom, which recently found a potentially more infectious variant of novel coronavirus in its population, are currently undergoing genome sequencing at the designated laboratories across the country. The genome sequencing study would determine if the Covid-19 positive […]

Bhubaneswar: As many as 62 travellers, who returned to Odisha from the United Kingdom recently, have reportedly gone untraceable. The disappearance of the UK returnees has sent alarm bells ringing among health officials and the authorities engaged in the battle against Covid-19 especially in the background of fears that some of them might be carrying […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government on Friday announced that the newly discovered COVID-19 mutant strain has not been found among the travellers who returned to the State from United Kingdom in the past one month. Additional Chief Secretary (Health Department). PK Mohapatra today said that all the UK returnees to the State have been traced and the […]

Thiruvananthapuram: An alert has been sounded in Kerala after six UK returnees to the state after December 14 tested positive for the new coronavirus strain. While two persons each from Alappuzha and Kozhikode tested positive for the new variant, Kottayam and Kannur districts reported one case each, officials said on Tuesday. Health Minister KK Shailaja called […]