Two-Year-Old UK Returnee Tests Positive For New Coronavirus Strain In UP

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A two-year-old girl who recently returned to Meerut with her parents from the UK has been found to be infected with the new Covid-19 strain.

This is the first such instance of the latest Covid 19 virus variant in Uttar Pradesh, which is said to be 70 percent more transmissible than its previous form.

However, the parents of the two-year-old were found to be contaminated with the old form of Covid-19, said health officials in Meerut.

The child is at Meerut’s Subharti Medical College in an isolation ward with her parents.

According to the reports received on Tuesday evening, a girl who recently returned from the UK tested positive for the latest Covid-19 strain in Meerut. Her parents also tested positive for Covid-19, but it’s not the new strain. She was held in isolation, said Akhilesh Mohan, Chief Medical Officer of Meerut.

Earlier, four family members tested positive for Coronavirus after sending their samples to Delhi to validate the new strain.

Of the four specimens, the two-year-old girl’s sample tested positive for the latest strain of Coronavirus.

The family is from the Sant Vihar area of TP Nagar Police Station. Although locals in the area are being monitored, their location has been sealed.

Several cases of the new strain have been registered, including individuals who have recently returned to India from the UK and tested positive — three in Karnataka, one each in Pune and Tamil Nadu, and two in Hyderabad.

Reportedly, the new strain is spreading at a much faster rate and has sent alarm bells ringing all over the world.

India, like many countries, has suspended flights from Britain, where the variant has caused cases to soar. People from Britain arriving before the ban came into effect are being tested.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath of Uttar Pradesh has ordered officials to update testing systems and prepare to track the spread of the latest form of the virus.

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