Bangladesh has detected six individuals, who had lately visited India, contaminated with the Indian variant of the COVID-19, a high well being official mentioned on Saturday. Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) spokesman Professor Dr Nazmul Islam Munna mentioned the instances have been detected by well being officers in a single day. Out of the six individuals, two have been detected within the nationwide capital Dhaka.
All of them have been uncovered to the variant, often known as B.1.617, as they lately visited India and are at present stored underneath quarantine. “Six individuals have been discovered to be carrying the Indian variant thus far and we count on extra individuals to be detected with an identical varieties of virus within the coming days,” Munna told PTI.
“This development means we in Bangladesh need extreme caution, perfect compliance of health guidelines . If we maintain the guidelines, no variant — deadly or not — can cause major problems,” Munna mentioned. Last month, Bangladesh sealed its borders with India because of the raging quantity of coronavirus instances within the neighbouring nation.
But officers and studies mentioned many individuals got here to Bangladesh from India underneath particular preparations and a few of them fled a compulsory quarantine, heightening dangers of spreading the pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) described the Indian variant as a “variant of curiosity,” suggesting it may have mutations that would make the virus more transmissible, cause more severe disease or evade vaccine immunity.
Bangladesh reported 45 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of fatalities to 11,878. The total number of COVID-19 cases in the country stands at 772,127 with 1,285 fresh infections reported on Saturday.
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