Guwahati: Two more international passengers, a woman who returned from the US and a man from Qatar, tested Covid Positive in Assam in the last 24 hours.
Both of them arrived in the state earlier this month.
The health department official said on Sunday night that they crossed their fingers as a report on the genome sequencing of five other foreign travelers, who tested the positive a few days ago after arriving in the state, it would likely be accepted from any Kolkata-based laboratory when in the middle Scare Omicron.
Rumors of omicron infection in Qatar Returnee, aired by the media section and circulating widely on social media, people who are surprised throughout the state on Sunday morning.
Patients are currently hospitalized at the Tezpur Medical College Hospital (TMCH) in North Assam, but the hospital administration denied the report.
The TMCH Inspector Dr.
Madhab Rajbongshi said The Returnee tested Covid Positive in the RT-PCR test on Saturday.
He, however, said that the confirmation of the Omicron variant was not possible in the RT-PCR test and the sequencing of the genome could only ensure the Covid variant.
A Tezpur government official said a 33-year-old man reached Mumbai from Qatar and arrived at Guwahati airport on 4.
December.
Interestingly, the patient has taken both the covid vaccine dose in Qatar.
The Ministry of Health’s sources said the patient’s sample of Tezpur, Anong with us who returned women, was sent to the genome sequencing on Sunday.
“It might need a few days for us to get a genome sequencing report.
It takes some time because RNA extraction is done from the sample and then only the genome sequencing is done,” officially added.
The two new cases were detected when the RT-PCR test was carried out on the eighth day they returned to the state in accordance with the latest protocols issued for international passengers after the threat of Omicron.
The woman, who tested positive in Udalguri Regency in the Bodoland territorial area, has also shifted to a government hospital in this district.
He arrived at Bagdogra airport in West Bengal and went to Udalgguri with land with her husband.
Last week, five passengers from Europe and Saudi Arabia were tested positive for Covid-19 after entering Assam through Guwahati airport and Silchar.
While four of them reached Silchar airport on December 6, one landed in Guwahati last Tuesday night.
Although it does not show symptoms, travelers are hospitalized in the best health facilities available and are being monitored.