Surat: With the increase in the number of positive Covid-19 daily cases, at all 74 people were tested positively on Thursday in the city while four were found positive in the district of the letter.
From these cases, five have stated history of international travel.
These people have returned from Ukraine, Dubai, Australia and Thailand.
BJP MLA from Choryasi, Zankhana Patel, was too positive after he developed small symptoms, which he announced on his Twitter handle on Thursday.
His health condition is normal and has quarantined itself.
He was present in various political and government public functions held in the city recently.
People were found infected with the Omicron variant including a 39-year-old man from Athwaline who had returned from England on December 14 and was in a house isolation.
He tested positive on December 22 and was isolated in a private hospital.
In a recent test he was found negative and his health was stable.
A total of 86 people who came in the contacts were tested and nothing was found positive.
A 16-year-old school student planted a travel history found infected by Omicron.
Previously, a student was tested positive at school and during the search for contact students was tested positively on December 8.
His health is stable now.
A total of 77 people who came in the contacts were tested, of which three were positive and were under house isolation.
So far, 10 people have been found infected with Omicron variants in the city.
In the Valsad District, 15 Covid cases, eight Bharuch and Navsari, were reported on Thursday.
Among positive cases in the city, Saifi Society at L H Road in Varachha was declared the cluster area after two people from the same family were tested positive.
Nootan Bary House in the Palanpur area of Jakatnaka was also declared a cluster area after two people were tested positively from the same family.
A total of 15 schools and students tested are positive.
The students came from nine city and school schools from Bengaluru.
Some students come from colleges in Mumbai, Anand, Chennai, Uttar Pradesh, and Ukraine too.
15 schools, test students + ve, 1 omicron infected
