Tally of Covid patients infected with UK variant reaches 9 in Delhi

New Delhi, Jan 5 : One more patient at a Delhi government-run hospital has been found infected with the UK strain of novel coronavirus, taking the tally in the national capital to nine.
Dr Suresh Kumar, medical director of Lok Nayak Jai Prakash (LNJP) Hospital, told IANS that one Covid patient admitted there has been detected carrying the UK strain with the lab test confirming it on Tuesday.
IANS had reported earlier that three Covid patients were confirmed to be carrying the UK strain on Monday.
All such patents are admitted at the LNJP. Besides, 41 contacts of these patents detected carrying the UK strain are admitted in the hospital. The latest count is a UK returnee who travelled the country recently, Kumar said.
“The total number of patients suspected of being infected by the UK strain has reached 49. Of them, the strain is confirmed in nine persons,” he said.
Kumar also informed that of the total 49, 17 are travellers while the remaining are their contacts. “Fifteen are those who came directly from Dubai while two others transited via Dubai to India,” he said.