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At least two people tested positive for Covid-19 in Kolkata after returning from UK. Seven passengers and a crew member who arrived from the UK in an Air India flight tested positive for Covid-19 in Punjab.

With as many as 20 passengers from the United Kingdom testing positive for Covid-19 at airports in Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata, the state governments have initiated vigorous contract tracking of passengers who came from UK or other European countries in the past 10 days.

At any rate, two individuals tried positive for Covid-19 in Kolkata in the wake of getting back from the UK, said West Bengal wellbeing secretary NS Nigam, state wellbeing secretary.

One individual has tried positive for Covid-19 out of 24 travelers who got back from the UK to Tamil Nadu, said wellbeing secretary J Radhakrishnan. 15 travelers were tried on Monday and another 9 were tried on Tuesday. “We have additionally distinguished another 15 individuals who were in close contact with the positive individual as they voyaged together via Air India 553 homegrown flight,” Radhakrishnan said. “They might have been uncovered as they sat in lines neighboring this (tainted) person. They are as of now in-home isolate yet we will test them as well.”

The wellbeing division on need is following the soundness of 1,088 travelers who came from England over the most recent seven days who are probably going to be tried in the following stage. According to the government’s SOP information of all worldwide voyagers who showed up after November 25 is being gathered.

Seven travelers and a team part who showed up from the UK in an Air India flight tried positive for Covid-19, Punjab serves for clinical training and examination, OP Soni told correspondents, adding that the individuals who tried positive for the contamination will be isolated. Six travelers at Delhi air terminal coming from the UK were additionally discovered positive for Covid-19.

Four travelers including a British public who showed up at Ahmedabad on Tuesday morning by an Air India departure from London tried positive for Covid-19, a city official said. Six travelers at Delhi air terminal coming from the UK were additionally discovered Covid positive.

The swab tests of the Covid-19 positive travelers have been shipped off the National Institute of Virology, Pune, for genomic testing to determine if it’s the new strain of the infection. The test reports would arrive in a couple of days. The association wellbeing service authorities on Tuesday said that there was no affirmed instance of new Covid strain in the nation.

The British government had cautioned of a strong new strain of the Covid-19 infection that was ‘wild’ with 70% greater capacity to communicate and had forced a severe new stay-at-home lockdown from Sunday. India on Monday declared the suspension, everything being equal, to and from the UK between December 23 and December 31 to forestall the appearance of the new Covid-19 strain that is accepted to spread the contamination quicker.

Specialists said the chance of the new strain of the infection having entered India couldn’t be precluded. The main affirmation of the new strain in the UK came about seven days prior.

Be that as it may, states, for example, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, and Kerala have begun following all travelers who have come from the UK and other European nations in the previous 10 days for Covid-19.

More noteworthy Chennai city company agent magistrate Meghnathan Reddy said if a UK returnee is discovered positive, the whole road where they are staying will be tried. “There swab tests will likewise be sent for genome testing to NIV, Pune,” Radhakrishnan said. Those testing negative will be sent home for 14-day isolate and positive cases will have alluded to clinics.

Near 2,000 travelers from the UK showed up at the Chennai air terminal in the previous week. In the event of Kolkata, the number is near 1,500. A portion of the travelers didn’t complete RT-PCRT tests, after which they were tried once more.

“At any rate, 222 travelers on a flight came to Kolkata from London almost immediately Sunday. In any event, 25 travelers, who didn’t have RT-PCR test reports with them at the hour of the landing were tried in Kolkata. Two of them tried positive and were moved to two separate medical clinics,” Nigam said.

Kaushik Bhattacharya, head of NSCBI air terminal stated, “On the off chance that anybody tests positive, the tainted individual is taken by the state government authorities to a Covid-19 assigned clinic.”

At Amritsar’s Sri Guru Ramdas Jee International air terminal, all travelers coming from the UK are being tried for Covid-19, which leads to long trusting that travelers will leave the air terminal. “Clearing the patients could take some time as all travelers and team individuals are being tried for Covid-19,” said Amritsar aide agent official Himanshu Aggarwal.

Ankush, an inhabitant of Faridkot in Punjab, said his sibling Ankur has shown up from the UK. “All our relatives have been sitting tight for him for as far back as a few hours,” PTI cited him as saying. He blamed the experts for not advising them about an opportunity to be taken for his freedom.

In Telangana, where 358 travelers had shown up in the previous multi-week from the UK, endeavors were on to follow them, said Telangana Public Health Director G Srinivas Rao. He added that no instance of the new strain of Covid-19 has been affirmed up until now and all travelers are being tried for Covid. Hyderabad had four non-stop flights and seven corresponding flights to the UK.

Uttar Pradesh wellbeing division gave bearings to test all travelers who returned from UK and Europe in the previous multi-week for Covid-19, an explanation by the state government said. Delhi wellbeing priest Satyendar Jain told journalists that the public authority authorities will visit homes of travelers who have shown up from the UK in the previous 10 days to check their ailment. A comparative, standard working strategy was additionally given by the Chhattisgarh government on Tuesday night.