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The man, who had returned from UK in the second week of December, has been kept in an isolation ward away from other COVID patients.
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The man, who had returned from UK in the second week of December, has been kept in an isolation ward away from other COVID patients.
Authorities in Telangana are gearing up to tackle the threat from the mutant UK variant of COVID-19 after a 49-year-old man from Warangal tested positive for it following the analysis at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad.
Hours after the initial results of genome sequencing results by the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) labs was announced by the Centre, authorities in Telangana drew up an action plan to keep patients suspected of being infected with the UK strain in a 14-day mandatory quarantine.
While Covid-19 patients are currently kept in seven days quarantine and considered recovered if there are no symptoms thereafter, in case of patients suspected to be infected with the UK strain a test will be repeated after 14 days of quarantine, officials said.
All foreign returnees who tested positive have been asked to identify their primary, secondary, and tertiary contacts.
These include family members, friends and anyone else they have met.
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