SARS-CoV-2 in India until Friday, said the Union Health Ministry.The ministry further informed that the situation is being monitored carefully and regular advice provided to states.The government had earlier said that patients of the new strain are admitted in single room isolation at designated Health Care facilities by respective states.Also Read | Covid far from over in some statesTheir close contacts have also been put under quarantine and comprehensive contact tracing has been initiated for co-travellers, family contacts and others, it said, adding that genome sequencing on other specimens is going on.The presence of the new UK variant has already been reported by several countries including Denmark, the Netherlands, Australia, Italy,.