Prayagraj: News of the detection of four new cases of Delta Coronavirus variant in the city became a viral on social media on Tuesday, placing the Authority MOTI LAL Nehru (MLN) College Medical in Tenterbooks for several hours.
This then turned out that the news was related to the four old cases of the deadly variant that was confirmed in the past city months.
The medical college authority then clarified that no new cases from the Delta variant were detected in several times in Sangam City.
“The State Government Based on World Health Guidelines and Reports (WHO) has asked health officials to conduct sequencing genes to find out the difference between Delta and Delta plus Coronavirus variant during the peak of the second wave of Covid-19 and KgMu (Lucknow), BHU (Varanasi) and IGIB (Delhi) was authorized for this purpose, “the Principal of the Medical Student School Dr.
SP Singh told TI on Tuesday.
He added, “After detection of several Delta Plus cases in Kerala and Maharashtra during the second wave, the health authority was asked to send a positive covid patient sample to the lab every two weeks.
On May 16, our medical college microbiology department has sent 15 covid patient samples to Kgmu, Lucknow but failed to get any reports or responses in the absence of testing.
“” This sample was then sent to Delhi on May 20, but we again failed to get any response because there was no test done.
On July 1, this sample Re-sent to BHU and the delayed report was received by our Microbiology department on July 31 where four samples were found infected with the Delta variant, “he added.
“However, patients tested were infected with the Delta variant in the BHU report, it was successfully hospitalized here and sent back to their home during the second wave,” he clarified.
A senior health official, meanwhile, said, “There is a continuous decline in the number of Covid cases in the city of Sangam and the recovery rate also increases.” He added, “Apart from the fast vaccination carried out in the city, people also have to wear masks and maintain social distance to keep the virus away.”