Members of the medical staff talk together in a hospital at the Saint-Pierre clinic in Ottignies, Belgium.
BRUSSELS: The Covid-19 variant contributing to a surge in coronavirus cases in India has been detected in Belgium in a group of Indian students who arrived from Paris, Belgian authorities said on Thursday.
Twenty nursing students, who arrived in Belgium in mid-April after travelling from the French capital s Charles de Gaulle airport, have tested positive for the variant, the office of government commissioner Pedro Facon told AFP, confirming media reports.
The students have been placed in quarantine in Aalst and Leuven in northern Belgium where they had been due to begin a training course.
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