A government-directed study has found no traces of coronavirus in Ganga waters after dead bodies were taken out from the river in some districts of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar during the peak of the second wave of Covid-19, news agency PTI reported. According to PTI, the study was conducted in two phases with the samples being taken from Kannuj, Unnao, Kanpur, Hamirpur, Allahabad, Varanasi, Balia, Buxar, Ghazipur, Patna and Chhapra. “None of the samples collected had traces of SARS-CoV2,” the news agency reported, quoting people associated with the study. The virological study extracted the RNA of the viruses from the water samples to conduct an RT-PCR test to determine the viral load. Bihar and Uttar Pradesh were badly hit when the second wave of coronavirus swept the nation.

Source: Hindustan Times July 07, 2021 18:00 UTC