KARACHI: (HRNW) The new strain of coronavirus linked to a rapid rise in infections in Britain has been detected in three UK returnees, the Sindh Health Department confirmed on Tuesday.
In a Twitter post, the department said: “Samples of 3 UK returnees show a 95% match to the new Corona Virus variant from UK in the first phase of Genotyping.”
Health officials said they took samples of twelve people upon their return from the UK for genotyping, out of which six turned out to be positive while three showed the new strain of the virus in the first phase.
“The Genotyping showed 95% match of the new variant from the UK,” they said, adding these samples will go through another phase of genotyping.
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