The Regional Health Agency (ARS) in France confirmed this Thursday, April 29, the presence of a first case of Indian variant. He was detected in Lot-et-Garonne in New Aquitaine. “We have identified that it was the Indian variant” about a case in Lot-et-Garonne “of a patient returned from India”, said Benoît Ellebood, regional director of ARS, quoted by several local media.
The “sequencing was done in Toulouse on a patient who had returned from India and who did a test because he had to go abroad. We have identified that it was the Indian variant and therefore the whole retorting, isolation and protection device of all people was put in place vis-à-vis this Indian variant, “it was added.
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that variant B.1.617, more commonly known as an Indian variant because of its first occurrence in India, had been detected in more than 1,200 genome sequences in “at least 17 countries”.
