Delta Plus variant of Covid-19 have been detected in Karnataka, as per the state's health minister Dr K Sudhakar. One case was found in Mysuru and one in Bengaluru.
The Mysuru patient is asymptomatic and none of his primary or secondary contacts have it, Sudhakar added. Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan has written to Karnataka Chief Secretary P Ravi Kumar in this regard. "The Public Health Response, in this case while broadly remaining the same, has to become more focused and stringent," he said.
The letter also asked the state to ensure that adequate samples of positive persons are sent to the designated laboratories of Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Consortia (INSACOG) promptly so that the clinical epidemiological correlations can be