chandigarh three more persons have tested positive for the new strain of coronavirus in haryana two are uk returnees while the third one is a prisoner with no travel historythe total number of persons who have tested positive for the new strain has gone up to four a gurgaon resident was the first one to tests positive of new uk variant of sarscov2 on tuesday the uk returnees are from karnal and rewari but the third patient who is a resident of karnal slum and an accused in a criminal case has left the health department in a tizzy officials are trying to track down his movements sources said the 22yearold man was arrested by sonipat police on december 3 and was tested on december 5 his sample for genome testing was randomly picked by csir he was lodged in karnal district jailby the time we got the report he had been shifted to sangrur jail in punjab we have informed the punjab government as well as jail authorities for necessary action karnal civil surgeon yogesh kumar saidhe said the karnalbased uk returnee had returned to india on december 14 from canada via london as he was found to be positive for covid19 his sample was sent to csir where he tested positive for new strain he has been shifted to covid facility kumar addedaccording to information as many as 1658 persons have returned from the uk between november 23 to december 23 out of which 1000 have been tested for covid19 and 11 were found to be positive now three out of seven have tested positive for the new variant acs health rajiv arora said there is no need to panic over the new strain the only difference is that this new variant transmits faster than the old one rest patients are stable and we are taking all precautions at the same time we have done complete contact tracing of all the four patients and those who came into contact with the four have been tested for both strains