News agency PTI has reported that 11 cases of Covid-19’s new variant Kappa are found in Rajasthan. Earlier, the variant had been detected in Uttar Pradesh.
Rajasthan’s state health minister Raghu Sharma said, 11 cases of the Kappa Covid-19 variant have been detectedRajasthan, of which three cases each are from its capital Jaipur and Alwar, two from Barmer, and one from Bhilwara.
The official report stated that among nine samples returned positive test results for the Kappa variant from Delhi. And another two tested positive at Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Hospital in Jaipur. Previously, Uttar Pradesh has reported two cases of Kappa variant as genome sequencing of 109 samples, conducted at Lucknow’s King George’s Medical College, returned positive results for the Kappa variant in two samples while the remaining 107 were found positive with the Delta variant. Delta and Kappa are both first detected in India.
Meanwhile, on the Covid front, Rajasthan has reported 28 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours with no fatalities. However, Rajasthan’s infection tally has risen to 953,187 including 943,629 recoveries, 8,945 deaths and 613 active cases.
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