Kanpur: Covid-19 test report of all 88 persons who had returned to city from UK recently, has confirmed to be negative. The report came out on late Saturday night. Swab and nasal samples of these 88 people were sent for conducting Covid-19 test at GSVM Medical College’s
Covid lab.
The district health authorities will also send the samples of these 88 people to Pune’s National Virology Institute where Genome Sequencing Test would be conducted.
These people had been kept in home isolation after their arrival. Also people who had come in their contact were quarantined.
Chief medical officer, Dr Anil Mishra confirmed that the lab reports of the samples of 88 people returning from UK has been confirmed as negative.
The CMO said that a list of 122 people who had returned from UK had been provided to them by the state government of which 88 persons have been contacted and their tests were conducted. tnn