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No mortality or rise in transmission was reported within the areas the place these variants have been detected, the ministry had stated in a press release (Picture: Shutterstock)
Greater than 15 lakh worldwide air passengers have thus far been screened and 200 of them have examined optimistic for COVID-19, Mandaviya stated on the sidelines of a ebook launch
Union Well being Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Wednesday stated the Omicron sub-variant, BF.7, has been present in a number of of the 200 Covid-positive samples of worldwide air passengers which have thus far been genome-sequenced and the vaccines being utilized in India towards the viral illness are efficient towards it.
Greater than 15 lakh worldwide air passengers have thus far been screened and 200 of them have examined optimistic for COVID-19, Mandaviya stated on the sidelines of a ebook launch.
The minister launched a ebook titled “Braving A Viral Storm”, which has been authored by Aashish Chandorkar and Suraj Sudhir, on the Structure Membership right here on Wednesday.
“The genome-sequencing of the 200 samples confirmed that the BF.7 variant was current in a number of passengers. Our vaccines are efficient towards this sub-variant,” he stated.
The well being ministry had, on January 9, stated the sentinel-sequencing of 324 Covid-positive samples lifted from the neighborhood between December 29 and January 7 had revealed the presence of all of the Omicron variants, comparable to BA.2 and its sub-lineages together with BA.2.75, XBB(37), BQ.1 and BQ.1.1(5), amongst others.
No mortality or rise in transmission was reported within the areas the place these variants have been detected, the ministry had stated in a press release.
In addition to, XBB(11), BQ.1.1(12) and BF7.4.1(1) have been the primary variants detected within the optimistic samples of 50 worldwide passengers which have thus far been genome-sequenced.
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