First Case Of Indian COVID-19 Variant Found In Greece: Health Authority
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The country's public health agency said in a statement that the virus strain was detected in a foreign woman living in Athens area and had travelled to Dubai on April 4.
Greece has become the latest European nation to detect a case of the Covid-19 variant that has helped drive an explosion in infections in India, authorities said Sunday. The country's public health agency said in a statement that the virus strain was detected in a foreign woman aged 33 who lives in the Athens area and had travelled to Dubai on April 4. The woman had a negative PCR virus test result when she left Dubai, the agency said, adding that the variant was detected during a large collection of samples by health services. "It is the first case of the Indian variant in Greece," a source in the Greek health ministry told AFP on condition of anonymity.More Related News