After Agra, Uttar Pradesh has got its second case of Covid in the Unnao district. A young man traveling to Dubai got himself tested and has been reported as Covid positive.
Sub-District Magistrate Ankit Shukla along with the Health Department team reached the youth’s house and samples of 20 people, including the family members of the youth, were taken.
The local administration has isolated the youth under the Covid protocol. Apart from this, his report will be sent for genome sequencing. This young man is a resident of Koraura village of Hasanganj tehsil area of Unnao.
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It may be recalled that on Sunday, a 40-year-old man, who returned from China two days back, tested positive for Covid-19 following which he has been isolated at his home in Agra, chief medical officer Arun Srivastava.
His samples will be sent to Lucknow for genome sequencing, he said.”The man has been isolated at his home and teams of the health department have been asked to conduct tests of his family members and those who came in contact with him,” Srivastava added.
The man returned to Agra from China via Delhi on December 23 following which he was tested at a private lab. The report came out positive for Covid, he added. This is the first Covid positive case in the district detected after November 25, officials said.
last week India reported a total of 227 fresh Covid cases on Sunday in the last 24 hrs, against 201 cases on the previous day, said Union Health Ministry. In the same period, the country has recorded 1 more Covid related death, taking the national fatalities tally to 5,30,693, as per the report.
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