The Ministry of Health Union on Wednesday denied claims that India had reported the first case of the Covid-19 variant, XE, in Mumbai. Rambuttal came shortly after Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said that the results of the 11th generation sequencing carried out by him at 230 positive patients Covid-19 had found a new sub-variant of Omicron, XE.
BMC noted that a 50-year-old woman patient, a costume designer by the profession and a member of a film filming crew, who had arrived from South Africa on February 10, 2022, XE positive was tested. The Civic’s body added that he doubled, and he tested the negative for Covid-19 on arrival in India, but on March 2, 2022, in routine testing carried out by suburban diagnostics, he was found positive and quarantined. The test results conducted the next day are negative.
According to BMC, of 230 Covid-19 patients tested, 228 was infected with the Omicron variant while someone was infected by the Kappa variant. Of these, 21 must be hospitalized. None of them are in the intensive care unit (ICU) or the required oxygen support.
However, a senior health official, “FACTQ file in connection with the sample, which is being said by the XE variant, was analyzed in detail by genome experts from the Genomic Consortium SARS-COV-2 India (Insacog), which has been concluded that the constitution of this variant genome does not correlate With a picture of the genome from the XE variant. ”