Kolkata: Five Covid patients were more detected with omicron variants in Bengal on Wednesday, doubling omicron’s count in a day to 10.
Four of the five new Omicron patients did not have a recent history of foreign trips, pointing to the possibility of a new transmission of variants.
in the community.
This doctor worried that this could be the reason behind a sharp surge in Covid cases in Kolkata and the remaining Bengal in the last 24 hours.
Omicron transmission five times more than delta tensions.
Kolkata on Wednesday recording 540 new Covid cases, up from 382 on Tuesday and the highest in 202 days.
The last time Kolkata had recorded many cases of Covid on June 9.
The country on Wednesday sent 225 positive covid samples for genome sequencing while 700 more samples would be sent on Thursday.
“We received a genome sequencing report for 107 samples last night.
Of this amount, five are omicron-positive.
One of them has traveled internationally, the other – two of Kolkata and each of Dum Dum and Howrah – do not have a new trip history -New.
Contact search cells are gathering information for detention steps according to the protocol, “said the Director of Health Services Ajay Chakraborty.
Five new patients have mild or asymptomatic symptoms.
Apart from the 10 Omicron cases detected in the state, there are two other patients who test positive for new variants in other countries after their arrival from abroad.
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