: Coronavirus: No Delta Plus infection in Tripura, says Centre after state reports 138 such cases #IndiaNEWS The Centre on Sunday said there was no case of Delta Plus variant in Tripura, two days after

Coronavirus: No Delta Plus infection in Tripura, says Centre after state reports 138 such cases #IndiaNEWS
The Centre on Sunday said there was no case of Delta Plus variant in Tripura, two days after the state government said that 90% of the Covid-19 samples that it sent for genome sequencing contained the highly contagious variant.On July 9, Deep Kumar Debbarma, the state’s nodal Covid-19 officer, had said that 138 samples of the about 151 sent for genome sequencing were found to contain the Delta Plus variant. He had added that some samples also tested positive for the Delta and Alpha variants.Following the findings, the state government had announced a total weekend curfew in 13 urban local bodies. On Sunday, the Union health ministry said in a statement 152 samples were sent from Tripura to the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics in West Bengal’s Kalyani city for genome sequencing. It said the genome sequencing revealed that three samples tested positive for Alpha variant, 11 for Kappa and 138 for Delta.“There was no case of Delta Plus reported among the aforementioned lot of sequenced samples,??? the statement said.In June, the Centre had classified Delta Plus as a “variant of concern???. The Union health ministry classifies a variant as one of concern as soon as there’s evidence of increased transmission.The variant has an extra mutation in the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2...Read more

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