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Indian COVID variant found in 6 patients in Bangladesh: IEDCR

Published : Monday, 17 May, 2021 at 2:05 PM  Count : 869

Indian COVID variant found in 6 patients in Bangladesh: IEDCR

Indian COVID variant found in 6 patients in Bangladesh: IEDCR



The Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) has detected six COVID patients who are carrying the Indian variant of novel coronavirus.

Of them, three are the members of a same family.
All of them returned to home last week of April and they were in isolation at different hospitals.

bdnews24.com adds: One of the victims has died, according to the IEDCR. The man was also suffering from cancer and other ailments.

The IEDCR said on Sunday the samples of 26 India returnees were tested in April and six people were found to carry the B.1.617.2 variant, one of the three forms detected in India, with each having a slightly different genetic makeup.

The Bangladeshis identified with the Indian variant had visited Chennai, Bengaluru, Haryana and West Bengal in India between April 1-25 for treatment, according to the IEDCR.

Since the onset of coronavirus infection in the country last year, IEDCR has jointly sequenced about 200 samples with ICDDR,B.

Bangladesh has so far detected the UK, South Africa, Nigeria and India variants of the coronavirus.

The first case of the Indian variant was identified on May 8, according to the health department.

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