UK variant genome of SARS-CoV-2 so far, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday after genome sequencing."Four new cases found by NIV, Pune and one new case sequenced in IGIB, Delhi.
All 25 persons are in physical isolation at health facilities", said the Union Ministry of Health.Also Read | The march of 2020 in 10 key long readsThe health ministry on Wednesday said the mutated UK strain was detected in eight samples at the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), one at the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG), Kalyani (near Kolkata), one at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) Pune, seven at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences Hospital (NIMHANS) Bengaluru, two at the Centre for Cellular and.