Bangladesh, May 9 -- All the ten India returnees, who were undergoing treatment at Chittagong Medical College and Hospital, have tested negative for Covid-19 and no case of Indian variant was found in the district, said Civil Surgeon of Chattogram.

Civil Surgeon Dr Sheikh Fazle Rabbi, said "Till now there is no Indian variant in Chattogram and all the ten India returnees have come out negative for Covid-19."

However, a research team of Chattogram Veterinary and Animal Science University (CVASU) has found the South African and UK variants in most of the samples after their genome sequencing .

Prof. Dr Sharmin Chowdhury of CVASU said, "The researchers conducted the genome sequencing of 10 samples from March 28 to April 5 and they found t...