Total Cases in India Detected With UK Mutant Strain Rises to 73

Denmark, Netherlands, Australia, Italy, Sweden, France are among the countries that have reported the new strain.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Wednesday, 6 January, said that the total number of cases infected with the United Kingdom strain of the coronavirus now stands at 73.

Earlier in the day, the Centre had said that a total of 71 persons have been detected with the new 'more transmissible' UK coronavirus mutant strain.

According to the Health Ministry, all these persons have been kept in single room isolation in designated health care facilities by respective state governments. Their close contacts have also been put under quarantine, IANS reported.

"Comprehensive contact tracing has been initiated for co-travellers, family contacts and others. Genome sequencing on other specimens is going on," the ministry said.