Varanasi: Health officials heaved a sigh of relief on Thursday when the report from National Institute of Virology laboratory in Pune confirmed that the Mirzapur youth who returned home from Britain in mid December did not suffer from the the UK strain.
Chief medical officer Dr VB Singh said that the BHU lab had sent the samples of the youth, who tested
Covid positive late December, to the Pune lab on December 30.
“The report from the Pune lab was received at BHU on Thursday, and it confirmed that no UK strain of the coronavirus was found in him,” said the CMO, adding that the state government has also been informed about the report.
The Mirzapur native tested Covid positive a fortnight after he returned home from Britain in December. He was traced from his in-laws’ place in Sundarpur area of Varanasi, and admitted to a separate ward at level-3 facility of BHU hospital. All the people who came in his contact including 14 family members in Mirzapur and nine in Varanasi had also been quarantined.