Bengaluru: Five other Covid-19 patients in Karnataka have been found infected by the Omicron variant, taking the total number of such cases at eight.
While three new patients had history of international travel, the other two returned from Delhi, which led to the concerns of the spread of the Omicron community in India.
All the fifth had taken two doses of Covid-19 vaccine and did not suffer from severe illness, the health department authorities said.
While four patients were treated in a hospitalized hospital in Bengaluru, one was in Bellagavi.
Today’s health status of patients affected by omicron is good and no one has serious symptoms, the health department said on Thursday.
Infected new Omicron including a 19-year-old teenager returned, a 52-year-old man who came from Nigeria and currently in Bellagavi, a 33-year-old man who came from South Africa and 70 years old and his 36-year-old son and son , both of East Bengaluru, who returned from Delhi.
All five have 35 contacts and they have undergone a RT-PCR test and four found positive.
19 years did not have a 19-year-old main contact from England tested positively on the arrival test at Kempegowda International Airport on December 13.
He did not have the main contact and was immediately sent from the airport to a government hospital and from there a private hospital on his request.
“Mother and son were in Delhi to attend a wedding and return to Bengaluru on the same day.
They were tested on December 6 because they were the main contact of someone found infected by Omicron in Delhi on December 5.
Marriage could be a Super Spreader event,” said the source .
Both were treated in private hospitals since December 6 flies for 52-year-old men, who traveled from Nigeria on December 13, tested positively Covid on arrival in Bengaluru Bengaluru.
“Because he held a continuous flight to Bellagavi in the next two hours, he should be given permission,” said the Ministry of Health.
The man, a resident of Azam Nagar, isolated himself at home and then shifted to Bellagavi Institute of Medical Sciences (BIMS).
Bellagavi District Health Officer Dr.
Sv Munyal said he was unaware of this case until Thursday night.
“We still track the people traveling with him on a flight from Bengaluru to Bellagavi on December 14,” he said.
However, the Health Commissioner D Randeep said the man’s contact was traced in Bellagavi and Bengaluru.
The health department at night said that the man was that it was and allowed to go to Bellagavi before his report came out.
Of the three first-omicron patients the country, two were dumped from hospitals, while the third escaped from the country.
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