Just when the tourism and hospitality industry is slowly inching back to normalcy with adequate safety measures, the world has to face a new COVID variant. Mumbai put out new guidelines for passengers arriving from COVID-19 variant countries. And Japan went ahead to ban international tourists from entering the countries. That’s not all, a new survey suggests that Indians might cancel their international travel plans due to the new mutant virus strain. Well, now the news reveals that the virus strain has reached home. Six UK returnees tested positive for the new COVID variant in India. Read on for more information.
6 Returnees From The UK Suffer From COVID Virus Mutant
Six people who returned back to India from the UK have tested positive with the new UK coronavirus variant. The government put out a statement on December 29. According to The Quint, the government said in its release “All these persons have been kept in single-room isolation in designated healthcare facilities by respective state governments. Their close contacts have also been put under quarantine. Comprehensive contact tracing has been initiated for co-travellers, family contacts and others. Genome sequencing on other specimens is going on.” The COVID variant discovered in the UK is found to be more infectious. It has worried people across the globe.
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The UK might even go on Tier 5 harsher lockdown with more restrictions than that in November. Samples of three UK returnees underwent tests. Researchers and doctors found the samples to be positive for the new UK strain. Three samples tested positive in NIMHANS, Bangalore, two in Hyderbad’s Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology and one in Pune’s National Institute of Virology. Respective state governments have placed all the 6 UK returnees in single room isolation wards with proper health care facilities. They have also quarantined their close contacts. In order to not lose hope, here’s a recovery story of a UK returnee who suffered and defeated COVID-19.