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PRAYAGRAJ: A news of detection of four new cases of coronavirus’s Delta variant in the city went viral on social media on Tuesday, putting the authorities of Moti Lal Nehru (MLN) Medical College on tenterhooks for several hours. It later turned out that the news was related to four old cases of the deadly variant confirmed in the city months back.
The medical college authorities later clarified that no new case of Delta variant has been detected in recent times in Sangam city.
“The state government on the basis of World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines and reports had asked health officials to conduct gene sequencing to find out discrepancy between Delta and Delta Plus variants of coronavirus during the peak of the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic and KGMU (Lucknow), BHU (Varanasi) and IGIB (Delhi) were authorised for the purpose,” principal of MLN Medical College Dr SP Singh told TOI on Tuesday.