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New coronavirus strain: 20 more test positive in India, tally reaches 58
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 5 (ANI): Fifty-eight people have been infected with the new strain of coronavirus, first reported in the United Kingdom, in India so far, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) informed on Tuesday.
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Six UK returnees in Kerala test positive for new Covid strain
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], January 4 (ANI): Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja on Monday said that six persons, who returned from the UK, have been confirmed with multiple spike protein mutations - SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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New Covid strain: India-UK flights to resume from January 8 in restricted
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 1 (ANI): The flight operations between India and the United Kingdom, which have been banned due to the emergence of new strain of coronavirus, will be resumed from January 8 till 23, said Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Friday.
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Punjab to send 5 pc of total positive samples per week to IGIB, NCDC to ch
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], December 30 (ANI): The Punjab Government has decided to send 5 per cent of total positive samples per week to Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and other premier institutes to check new mutated strain
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Urdu Bulletin: Centre's proposed talks with farmers, new Covid strain cove
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 30 (ANI): Today's editions of Urdu publications have highlighted the news of the new coronavirus strain entering India and also the news of the vaccine for the COVID-19 being useful for the strain. The news of today's impending talks between the Central government
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Symptomatic, Covid positive passengers who flew to India in last 14 days t
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 29 (ANI): Those international passengers who have arrived in India during the last 14 days, if symptomatic and tested positive, will be subjected to genome sequencing, in view of the new COVID strain in the United Kingdom, said the Union Health Ministry on Tuesday
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Separate isolation unit for UK returnee COVID patients at Delhi's Lok Naya
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 24 (ANI): In view of the threat posed by the spread of a new variant of the coronavirus, the Delhi government on Thursday asked Lok Nayak Hospital to set up a separate isolation unit for passenger who travelled between the UK and India in the past 4 weeks and t
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COVID-19: Help desk at Bhubaneswar airport for passengers from UK
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Bhubaneshwar (Odisha) [India], December 24 (ANI): Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has set up a help desk at the arrival of Biju Patnaik International Airport after the Odisha Government asked authorities to strict adherence to the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) issued by the Unio
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COVID-19: Karnataka govt imposes night curfew till January 2
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], December 23 (ANI): The Karnataka government has decided to impose a state-wide night curfew from 10 pm to 6 am starting from Wednesday till January 2.
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Chhattisgarh Government issues guidelines for passengers travelling from U
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], December 23 (ANI): Amid rising concerns over the discovery of a new strain of coronavirus in the UK, the Chhattisgarh Government on Tuesday issued guidelines for passengers travelling from the UK to Chhattisgarh via international flights.
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New Covid strain not detected in samples tested in India: ICMR-NARI
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], December 23 (ANI): Mutant strain of coronavirus found in the United Kingdom was not seen in the samples tested from various parts of India, Dr Samiran Panda, director of ICMR-National AIDS Research Institute (NARI) said on Tuesday.
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