Four of the infected patients died after developing complications linked to severe pre-existing illnesses, while health officials said hospitals across Andhra Pradesh have been placed on alert and five samples are undergoing genome sequencing.
Claiming that Odisha is fully prepared to tackle any possible resurgence of COVID-19, Health and Family Welfare Minister Mukesh Mahaling said on Tuesday that the public has no reason to panic as the state has implemented all necessary preparedness measures.
Following a new COVID-19 case in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, the health department has appealed to the public to remain vigilant.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that just as the people of the country united to confront the global COVID-19 pandemic, a similar sense of collective responsibility and national spirit is now needed amid the evolving situation in West Asia.
Odisha, endowed with a huge tourism potential, has recorded a substantial increase in the footfall of foreign tourists to coastal state in recent years after a considerable decline in 2020 and 2021 due to the outbreak of Covid-19.
Britain has warned this new strain of coronavirus was "out of control", and imposed a stringent new stay-at-home lockdown from Sunday.
The suspension does not apply to international aircraft currently in the kingdom, which will be allowed to leave, SPA said.
"With wearable devices that can measure temperature, we can begin to envision a public Covid early alert system," said study author Benjamin Smarr from the University of California, San Diego in the US.
He advised the citizens to 'still be vigilant, observe safety norms like wearing masks and observing social distancing'.
According to a study, published in the journal 'Nature', genetic evidence is second only to clinical trials as a way to tell which treatments will be effective in a disease.
