Bengaluru: Karnataka on Sunday reported Covid-19 patients with all Omicron variants.
He was a 34-year-old Bengalurean person who returned from a business trip from South Africa more than 10 days ago.
The man, was isolated in the Bowring and Lady Curzon Medical College and Research Institute, has at least 20 contacts – five primers and 15 secondary – which have been traced and tested negatively.
Minister of Health K Sudhakar confirmed this in a tweet.
The Special Commissioner of the BBMP (Health) Dr.
KV Trilok Chandra to Toi: “He arrived at midnight November 29-30.
He did not show symptoms and treated at Bowring Hospital.
All 20 contacts, including family members, have been tested negatively.” New patients, officials said, had been tested negatively on arrival.
“However, he suffered a sore throat on the next day at home.
He was tested for the second time and was found as a positive Covid-19,” said an official.
The swab sample was immediately sent for sequencing genomes and the results came at the end of Saturday, added other officials.
Five of the more than 5K passengers tested + two Veindia’s first omicron variants – a 66-year-old foreign doctor and a 46-year-old doctor from Bengaluru – reported from Karnataka.
The government raises foreign national flakes to leave the country after obtaining a negative certificate from the private laboratory.
Karnataka has filtered all international passengers from ‘At Risk’ countries and special officers for supervision has been appointed.
Of the more than 5,000 international passengers from in risky countries arriving at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) between December 1 and 10, only five were tested positively.
The man who returned from SA was the 3rd omicron patient k’taka
