Image Source : PTI Another Delhi resident exams constructive for brand spanking new coronavirus pressure
One extra Delhi resident has examined constructive for the brand new coronavirus pressure detected within the UK, sources stated on Friday, because the authorities carried out door-to-door check-up of the individuals who had not too long ago arrived right here from the UK and people who got here of their contact within the metropolis. Till Thursday, their depend had stood at 13.
“One more person has tested positive for the UK strain, while five others whose samples were also sent for genome sequencing came out negative. These all cases are part of the door-to-door exercise,” a supply stated.
With this, 14 residents of the nationwide capital have to this point been discovered contaminated with the mutant variant of COVID-19 that was first detected within the UK.
Meanwhile, passenger flights resumed from the UK to India in restricted numbers from Friday onwards after being suspended for 16 days as a result of emergence of the brand new coronavirus variant in that nation.
Air India’s AI112 flight from London landed on the Delhi airport at round 10.30 AM.
It was the one UK flight to land in Delhi on Friday and it had 256 passengers in it, stated Gauri Agarwal, founding father of the Genestrings Diagnostic Centre, which is dealing with coronavirus testing of all passengers on the Delhi airport.
Later in the course of the day, she stated two out of 256 individuals have been discovered constructive for COVID-19 when examined on arrival.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Health Minister Satyendar Jain had on Friday appealed to the Centre to increase the ban on UK flights until the top of January.
On Friday, town authorities issued an order, saying, “Those (passengers arriving here from the UK) who are found negative shall be kept in compulsory institutional quarantine for a period of 7 days followed by 7 days of home quarantine.”
Delhi recorded 444 recent COVID-19 circumstances, and 10 new fatalities on Friday, even because the positivity charge dipped to 0.59 per cent, authorities stated. The an infection tally within the metropolis stands at 6.29 lakh and the loss of life toll mounted to 10,654, they stated.
(With PTI inputs)
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