Mumbai: New evidence emerges hours after XE variant was detected

“The person who tested positive for #XEVariant One is a fully vaccinated 50-year-old female with no concomitant and asymptomatic. She had arrived from South Africa on February 10 and had no prior travel history. On arrival, he had tested negative for the virus,” according to PIB Maharashtra Tweet.

Additionally, the tweet notified, “FastQ files with respect to the sample, being referred to as #XEVariant, were analyzed by genomic experts at INSACOG, who hypothesized that this variant is related to the genomic picture of the genomic constitution.” No. ‘XE’ variant.”

This comes in the wake of health experts on Wednesday who are already allaying apprehensions about the XE variant case and said that despite being around January, the strain has not led to a rise in cases like Omron, but Covid. It is advised to strictly follow -19-appropriate behavior.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said on Wednesday that a woman who had come here from South Africa in February and tested positive for COVID-19 tested positive for the XE variant, which was first detected in the UK. According to the news agency, this was the first XE case in Mumbai. PTI report good.

Official sources in New Delhi clarified, “The current evidence does not yet indicate that it is a case of XE variant.” According to the Maharashtra health department, the XE variant was found in a 50-year-old woman, a South African national who had come here on February 10 and was tested positive for COVID-19 on February 27. . His laboratory sample was sent to Kasturba Hospital Central Laboratory for genome sequencing.

“This is a new XE variant found in initial sequencing. Although GISAID also confirmed the same, INSACOG (Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium) has decided to go for another round of genomic sequencing at a national laboratory for definitive confirmation of the XE variant,” the department said. The woman was asymptomatic and was found to be RT-PCR negative on repeated tests, the health department said.

(with inputs from agencies)