The UK mutant strain and double mutant strain of coronavirus have been found among Covid patients in Ranchi and East Singhbhum districts, the Regional Genome Sequencing Laboratory (RGSL) at Bhubaneshwar-based Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) confirmed on Wednesday.
The Health Department had sent as many as 52 Covid positive samples to Bhubaneshwar last week for genome sequencing, and the test reports confirmed that at least nine of these samples were of UK mutant strain while four were double mutant, a press communique from the Government stated, asking residents to be cautious.
