Delta Plus variant: Centre asks Karnataka to take up immediate containment measures
BENGALURU:
A day after Karnataka’s first case of Delta Plus variant was reported in Mysuru, an 86-year-old in Bengaluru has also been detected on Wednesday.
The Bengaluru patient is a resident of Ashok Nagar, who had symptoms of influenza-like illness (ILI). He had got one dose of COVID-19 vaccine when his sample was collected in May and sent to the genome sequencing lab in NIMHANS.
The Health and Medical Education Minister Dr. K. Sudhakar said the information had been shared with the Union Health Ministry and the government was carefully monitoring the emergence of new variants. Six more genome labs would be set up in the State.
Meanwhile, Health officials in Mysuru are awaiting the results of one more batch of samples sent to NIMHANS for genome sequencing.
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