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Four out of over 1,000 UK returnees test Covid positive in Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh in the past one month have tested positive for Covid-19, state Health Commissioner Katamaneni Bhaskar said on Friday.The samples of all four people have been sent to the National Institute of Virology, Pune, and Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, to determine if they carried the new coronavirus strain recently discovered in the UK.Also Read | The global drive to reimagine capitalismAccording to Bhaskar, 1,148 people arrived in the state from the UK in the last one month and 1,040 of them have been traced so far. He said that 18 of them were from other states and 16 had invalid addresses, while efforts were on to trace the remaining 88.