As more cases of the new, mutated coronavirus is being reported in India it has once again created anxiety among state governments. In a recent case, a two-year-old girl from Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut was found infected with the new COVID-19 strain which was first discovered in the UK.
All districts in Uttar Pradesh and the health departments have been put on high alert. All DMs have been instructed to strictly follow the coronavirus protocols. All the districts are being monitored through the Director General of Health, Dr. DS Negi of the state Covid Control Room to avoid any kind of negligence.
So far, a total of 1,655 people have returned from the UK to Uttar Pradesh and 1,090 have been identified. While the mobile phones of 565 people are switched off and efforts are on to find them based on their listed address.
Principal Secretary of the Department of Medicine and Health, Alok Kumar said that samples of all these have been sent to the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology for genomic sequencing in New Delhi.