INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Hyderabad: A total of 184 people who have returned from the United Kingdom to Telangana state are difficult to trace as they had provided
incorrect addresses and telephone numbers
It is also suspected that some of them have shifted to other states or other districts.Besides, many others who were living in rented homes
have shifted and no one knows their new address
UK returnees tested positive on Saturday
Besids, two more people who returned from the UK tested positive
The state now has 18 people who returned from the UK diagnosed with Covid-19.Of these, four are from Hyderabad, six from Medchal Malkajgiri,
two from Jagtial, one each from Mancherial, Nalgonda, Ranga Reddy, Sangareddy, Siddipet and Warangal Urban dstricts
Resuts are awaited to find out if they are carrying the more infective mutant variety of SARS-CoV-2 that was found in the United
Kingdom.These 18 people have been kept in institutional isolation in different hospitals
There are 79 contacts of these 18 who have been placed in quarantine and their health is being monitored as they suffered from severe
states for social gatherings, marriages, celebrations and a good number of them visited Goa
Surveillance officials in the state are on the ground tracing those who came between December 9 and December 15.Officials attempting to do
contact tracing are running into a blank wall with people unable to remember if they came in contact with either the UK returnees or with
the infected persons among them.Other states have also been alerted about the movement of people and their place of stay and whereabouts
task as we are once again reaching out to a large number of people
As they did not have any symptoms of disease, there was no point in them being at home
The people went about their work and social celebrations as was planned
