{"id":329841,"date":"2020-12-30T04:09:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T04:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329841"},"modified":"2020-12-30T04:40:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T04:40:51","slug":"20-cases-of-uk-coronavirus-strain-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/20-cases-of-uk-coronavirus-strain-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"20 cases of UK Coronavirus strain in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-325719 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/virus-covid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"958\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/virus-covid.jpg 958w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/virus-covid-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/virus-covid-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/virus-covid-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/virus-covid-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/virus-covid-696x478.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/virus-covid-611x420.jpg 611w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 958px) 100vw, 958px\" \/>20 people who have returned from the United Kingdom to India have tested positive for the new coronavirus strain. This includes results of the six people who were found positive with new strain on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cA total of 6 samples of 6 UK returnee persons have been found to be positive with the new U.K variant genome,\u201d the Ministry said on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The new UK Variant has already been reported by Denmark, Netherlands, Australia, Italy, Sweden, France, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, Japan, Lebanon and Singapore, so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Last week, India had temporarily suspended flights from the UK till December 31 after the emergence of the new coronavirus strain in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Ministry has said, \u201cFrom 25th November to 23rd December 2020 midnight, about 33,000 passengers disembarked at various Indian airports from the UK. All these passengers are being tracked and subjected by States\/UTs to RT-PCR tests. So far only 114 have been found positive. These positive samples have been sent to 10 INSACOG labs (NIBMG Kolkata, ILS Bhubaneswar, NIV Pune, CCS Pune, CCMB Hyderabad, CDFD Hyderabad, InSTEM Bengaluru, NIMHANS Bengaluru, IGIB Delhi, NCDC Delhi) for genome sequencing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 people who have returned from the United Kingdom to India have tested positive for the new coronavirus strain. This includes results of the six people who were found positive with new strain on Tuesday. \u201cA total of 6 samples of 6 UK returnee persons have been found to be positive with the new U.K [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":325719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[13816,574],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329846,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329841\/revisions\/329846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/325719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}