India has successfully quarantined and cultured the UK-variant of Sars-CoV-2, the virus that induces the coronavirus, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) announced in a tweet on Saturday.
“UK-variant of the virus, with all signature changes, is now successfully isolated and cultured at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) from the clinical specimens collected from UK-returnees,” the country’s apex medical body wrote on Twitter.
It stated that Sars-CoV-2, the virus generating Covid-19, was being traced through the countrywide network of ICMR-laboratories since early days of the pandemic in India. No nation has yet announced successful isolation and culture of the UK variant, according to ICMR. Vero cell lines were employed by the scientists of ICMR-NIV to culture the UK-variant of the virus, it added.
India has reported 29 cases of the new coronavirus variant.
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