The Andhra Pradesh government is on high alert after laboratory reports confirmed that the woman (47) who had evaded health authorities at Delhi airport on returning from the UK last week was carrying the mutated strain of the novel coronavirus currently rampaging through Britain.
Pune’s civic body, meanwhile, was yet to trace 109 travellers who had arrived in the city from the UK in the past 15 days. Absence of contact details and failed attempts to connect on the phone compelled Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to approach the police for help, a civic official said.
Odisha, too, was facing problems. The Bhubneswar Muncipal Corporation has been given a list of 74 more people who have travelled from the UK to the Odisha capital. It has formed six teams to trace them but it is proving difficult as the returnees’ phones — powered by UK-based service providers — have been switched off. In AP ,health and family welfare commissioner K Bhaskar said his department had so far traced 1,406 UK returnees out of the identified 1,423. “We have also identified 6,364 contacts,” he said. ( TOI )
