Mumbai: Eight cases of omicron variants who highly transplant have been found in a positive sample of Covid-19 in the state, taking a count of cases that are linked to the 48th variants in Maharashtra.
Four of new cases detected from passengers arriving at Mumbai airport, three were residents of Satara and one from Pune City.
All have history of international travel and most adults are partially or fully vaccinated, in accordance with the authorities.
State officials said the four cases in Mumbai were detected through screening at the airport.
A 32-year-old Kerala resident and 31-year-old Jalgaon residents, who have returned from South Africa on December 6, are among positive cases.
Another infected individual was a 48-year-old Chhattisgarh resident who arrived from Tanzania to Mumbai on December 11.
The fourth person found with a variant was a 49-year-old Briton who landed in Mumbai from London on December 12 and was found positive for Covid during the airport screening.
They put under institutional quarantine and their samples were sent for genome sequencing.
The National Virology Institute confirmed the diagnosis of omicron on Saturday.
What is important, said the State Supervisory Officer, Dr.
Pradeep kicked, two of them, Jalgaon and the British population, fully vaccinated.
The Chhattisgarh man was not vaccinated while the Kerala man had taken a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
Dr.
Mangala Gomare, BMC executive health worker, said everything was asymptomatic and was hospitalized as a precaution.
Three patients satara are all members of the same family, said state officials.
Two are adults and one is an eight-year-old girl.
Both adults are fully vaccinated.
Officials said they had a history of traveling to East Africa.
However, no one has symptoms.
Sole Pune patients are 17-year-old contacts from an international traveler.
He also has no symptoms, officials said.
Dr.
Shaute said that 48 were infected until now, seven were children.
None of the children have great symptoms even though they are all not vaccinated, he said.
One doctor at the Jijatama Hospital in Pimpri-Chinchwad, where two children were hospitalized first, said only one of them had a small cough.
“Cough is completed with basic medicines.
The symptoms have been mild or not in the cases we have seen so far,” he said.
However, a senior state official, said it would be too early to call Omicron light variants based on a handful of cases.
Incidentally, a study by the Imperial College London (ICL), was released on Friday, said there was no evidence to say Omicron was lighter than Delta.
In fact, the researchers said, the risk of returning with Omicron could more than five times higher than Delta.
Dr.
Shaute said the silver layer was that 28 of 48 patients had been repatriated.
Also, the state has conducted a RT-PCR test of 20,546 international travelers, including only 61 (0.3%) found positive for Covid-19.