After reports about #Mumbai becoming India’s first case of the highly transmissible ‘XE’ #Covid19 variant came around, Maharashtra Health Minister #RajeshTope on Thursday sought to allay fears and said the state department had not yet received a confirmatory report from the Centre or the National Institute of Biologicals (NIB) about the presence of the new variant. #BMC had earlier said on Wednesday, that the country’s first #Coronavirus XE variant has been found in #Mumbai.