The health department in Sindh said the samples of 12 returnees were taken for genotyping, out of which six tested positive. Pakistan on Tuesday confirmed its first case of the new coronavirus variant found in the U.K. after it identified the strain that spreads at a much faster pace in three samples taken from passengers who had returned from Britain. The health department in Sindh said the samples of 12 returnees were taken for genotyping, out of which six tested positive. “Samples of three U.K. returnees show a 95% match to the new coronavirus variant from the U.K. in the first phase of genotyping,” it said in a tweet. The health department said that the provincial government was tracing contacts of these patients and all those who came in contact with them were being isolated.

Source: The Hindu December 29, 2020 10:48 UTC