Delhi COVID-19: All of the 31 folks have been admitted to a particular ward arrange at LNJP hospital.
New Delhi:
Ten extra contacts of people that lately returned to Delhi from the UK, the place a super-spreader pressure of coronavirus has been reported, had been discovered to be COVID constructive, officers mentioned on Monday.
With this, the whole variety of contaminated individuals, together with those that returned from the UK (UK) and their contacts, has gone as much as 31.
“Eight individuals who got here in touch with the UK-returned contaminated individuals, examined constructive for coronavirus on Sunday. Two extra contacts examined constructive on Monday,” a senior Delhi authorities official mentioned.
Earlier, father of a UK-returned one who examined constructive for COVID-19, contracted the illness, he mentioned.
All of the 31 folks have been admitted to a particular ward arrange at LNJP hospital for the UK-returned and their contacts discovered constructive for the virus.
Their samples have been despatched for genome sequencing to establish whether or not they have been contaminated with the mutated pressure within the UK or the one prevalent regionally.
“The genome report is anticipated to be submitted on Tuesday or Wednesday,” a senior well being division official mentioned.
Out of the 31 contaminated individuals, 11 examined constructive following RTPCR check carried out on the Indira Gandhi Worldwide (IGI) airport right here after their arrival from UK. 9 different UK-returned folks had been discovered constructive within the metropolis authorities’s district degree door-to-door contact and testing drive.
The district degree groups contact those that had returned from UK after November 25 and check them for the virus. Intensive contact tracing can be underway to determine and check these individuals who got here of their contact and have developed any signs, officers mentioned.
Out of over 13,000 passengers who landed at IGI airport, round 1,400 have been recognized as Delhi residents. The listing of passengers offered by the Bureau of Civil Aviation Safety is being sorted and all of the Delhi residents who returned from UK are being contacted, they mentioned.
Delhi Well being minister Satyendar Jain had final week mentioned tracing and testing of all those that travelled to Delhi from the UK prior to now weeks could be ensured.
(This story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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