3 more suspected UK strain Covid patients admitted to LNJP

By Ashish Srivastava New Delhi, Dec 30 : The tally of people, suspected of carrying the new Covid strain detected in the UK, in the national capital rose to 38 on Wednesday after three more people, including returnees from the UK and a contact, were found Covid-19 infected during a surveillance drive conducted by the Delhi government, officials said.
Two of them have recently returned from the UK while one is a contact. All three of them have been isolated at the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash (LNJP) Hospital, its medical director Dr Suresh Kumar told IANS.
Out of the 38 at the hospital, 17 are passengers who returned from the UK recently while remaining are their contacts.
Meanwhile, four Covid patients at the Delhi government-run hospital have been found infected with the new variant first detected in the UK.
“All the patients found infected with the new variant have been isolated separately in different rooms of a special ward designated for the patients suspected or found infected with the new variant,” Kumar said.
IANS had reported earlier in the day that the AAP government has quarantined around 200 people, who either returned from the UK within a month or are in contact with those travellers found positive, at two facilities.