Coronavirus strain

Total number of people testing positive for new Coronavirus Strain has reached 20 in India after 14 more tested positive for the new UK variant genome of Sars-CoV-2 virus on Wednesday.

The Public Health Director, Niranjan Mishra on Monday said that out of 181 persons who had returned from the United Kingdom to Odisha between November 30 and December 21, at least 62 have become untraceable and incommunicado.

A four-year-old kid who returned with her parents from the United Kingdom (UK) on December 20, has tested positive for Covid-19. 

In the wake of a nationwide alert over the new and highly infectious coronavirus strain, Odisha Government on Thursday asked all District collectors for active surveillance of persons returned from UK in the last 14 days.