A woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura has been found infected with a South African strain of coronavirus.
According to an official statement on Friday, the woman, identified as Heera Devi belongs to Barsana town of the district and she had tested positive for COVID-19 on March 3 at the Deen Dayal Veterinary University. The sample was found infected with the South African strain, reported ANI.
The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) has ordered to conduct the tests in the entire village to which the woman belongs. The people who work in the ‘Dharamshala’ in Mathura, were the woman was staying earlier, will also be subjected to tests.
Meanwhile, two health workers from the district tested positive for COVID-19 despite having been inoculated with both does of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The latest Union health ministry update said that the total number of cases with the UK, South Africa and Brazil variants of SARS-CoV-2 in India has reached 795. On March 18, 400 cases were…