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BMC told to rope in cancer patients, others for genome study
Updated On: 22 September, 2021 07:43 AM IST | Mumbai | Somita Pal
State Covid task force asks civic officials to consider all patients, even those from private hospitals, for better analysis of new variants

A BMC worker collects a swab sample of a train passenger at LTT, Kurla, on Monday. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi
Include Coronavirus-hit patients from private hospitals, immunocompromised patients, cancer patients for a better genome sequencing study, the state’s task force to tackle the Covid pandemic has suggested.
In a review meeting on Monday, the task force discussed the latest sero surveillance along with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s genomic study which was presented by Dr Jayanthi Shashtri, head of microbiology at BYL Nair Hospital.
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