Chennai: Life came to full circle when the health ministry announced that another variant — Delta Plus — is discovered in the country after the Delta variant had wreaked havoc in the months of April and May. The Delta Plus variant is touted to be more virulent than Delta and Alpha due to which the ripples effect of the first two waves are still palpable.
In this context, a fortunate nurse from Tamil Nadu, who had tested positive for Delta Plus variant has recovered accroding to the reports. Days after health ministry confirmed that the new variant of COVID-19 found is a variant of concern, a nurse from Chennai's Adyar was confirmed to be the first person to have been infected with the mammoth delta plus variant in May and has now recovered, according to reports.
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The nurse tested positive on May 4 and she had tested negative on May 19. The next day of testing negative after a fortnight of home isolation, she resumed her work. All her contacts at home and workplace have tested negative.
The state had sent 1,159 samples to the lab for testing of which 772 results were sent back. Of the 772 samples returned, one sample was seen with a different genome sequencing, and they have declared it to be the most virulent variant the doctors have seen so far, which is Delta Plus. "With 70 per cent of samples returned have shown the genome sequencing of delta variant this was the only one sample which has shown a slightly different sequencing and have confirmed it as delta plus vriant," said health secretary J Radhakrishan as quoted by Time of India.
"The nurse is fine now and is completely recovered without any post Covid-complications and there are no clusters formed in the hospital she worked," he asserted.