Uttarakhand’s first case of delta plus variant found in Udham Singh Nagar
The first case of Delta Plus variant of Corona found in India including in many countries of the world has come to the fore in the state. The corona test report of a BTech student who came sometime back in Dineshpur in Udham Singh Nagar district came positive. His sample was also included in five percent of the samples sent under random testing for genome sequencing. On Tuesday night, the genome sequencing of the youth’s sample from Dehradun confirmed the presence of the Delta Plus variant. Since then, there has been a stir in the health department of Udham Singh Nagar district. However, this young man had returned to Lucknow on June 9. On Wednesday, the Health Department team traced his local address and took samples of the people who came in contact with him.
Initially 25 samples have been taken. Till the time of writing the news, the sampling of the health department team was going on. According to the information, the mother of the youth living in Balrampur Hospital premises of Lucknow is a nurse. He is originally from Ballia UP and his father does agriculture there. The young man is doing B.Tech from Lucknow. He also has a house in Dineshpur. According to family members, the youth had come to Dineshpur from Lucknow on April 29 and had come here to his uncle and aunt’s house. After this he went to his grandmother’s house.
As per media reports, on May 20, the young man had fever. On May 24, the corona test report of the youth came positive. On Tuesday, the Health Department from Dehradun informed the Health Department of the district about getting the Delta Plus variant of Corona in the genome sequencing of the youth’s sample. After this, on Wednesday, the team reached Dineshpur and took samples of 17 people who came in contact with the family of the youth’s uncle and other possible contacts for corona examination. At the same time, the health department team has left for the young man’s grandmother’s house. Here also a large number of sampling preparations are done.
