Kolkata: Swab samples from two international leaflets to the city, which were tested negatively on arrival but were then tested positively covid, sent to the order of genomes to test the possibility of omicron infection.
While someone has been accepted for infectious diseases & buyaghata General Hospital (ID & BG), the other in house isolation.
“A woman who flew from Ireland in December10 was found positive later.
He was accepted at ID & BG.
Others, who came from England, were also tested positively during follow-up tests on Monday and were in house isolation,” said Director of Health Services Ajay Chakraborty.
According to the protocol, both of them are among those who undergo a required RT-PCR test at eight days of their arrival to the city because they have been tested negatively on arrival.
Another male patient, a resident of Kolkata who was found by Positive Omicron on December 10 in Delhi, has now returned to the city after he tested the negative on infection.
“He was dismissed after his negative report arrived and he returned to Kolkata on Monday.
He was in a house isolation with his wife and daughter, which was negative throughout,” Dhs said.
With two cases of additional allegations reported on Monday, the country currently has five cases of obsicrons suspected.
While two were reported on Sundays, others have appeared on Saturday.
All these patients are stable.
Samples of three positive patients Covid-19 will be under the sequencing of the genome to detect if the infection is caused by the omicron variant.
Two are under institutional isolation while a child is in the quarantine of the house under the supervision of the South Kolkata private hospital.
So far, the country has one confirmed omicron case.
While the seven-year-old boy from Farakka has been tested negatively to the virus, the three status will only be known after the genome analysis report comes from the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG), Kalyani.
Sources in the Ministry of Health said the three samples had been forwarded to the Kalyani Institute while the sample of two new Covid positive cases would be sent on Tuesday.
The three sample reports have been sent are expected to come in the next three-four days.
“The 19-year-old boy was cold.
Apart from that, he did not have any symptoms.
He was fine,” said a source at Amri Dhakuria, where the Returnee Britain was accepted.
The 19-year-old boy was an Alipura resident found positively on arrival from England.
The asimptomatic 11-year-old boy is in a house isolation in Ballygunge.
The condition of the 69-year-old man admitted to Fortis was also stable.