Delta Plus variant of coronavirus in Karnataka has been detected in Mysuru district, said state health minister K Sudhakar on Wednesday.
The minister that the patient continues to be asymptomatic and none of his contacts have tested positive as well. "In Mysuru, one patient is infected with Delta Plus variant, whom we have isolated but he is asymptomatic and none of his primary and secondary contacts has the disease.
That is a good sign," Sudhakar was quoted as saying by news agency PTI. He further informed that the state government is carefully monitoring the emergence of the new variants and has decided to set up six genome sequencing labs in the state. "Wherever we have a suspicion, we are doing genomic sequencing.