Pune: Four more people, all Pimpri Chinchwad residents and contact near Nri women from Nigeria, were confirmed by Omicron infection in Pune District, in addition to three positive tests in Mumbai on Friday, taking the country’s case to 17.
All four of Pimpri Chinchwad asymptomatik.
They have been isolated at the Civic Hospital.
Of 11 cases of omicrons detected in the district so far, women NRI and both of his daughters traveling from Nigeria, and seven close contacts in Pimbri Chinchwad were confirmed by omicron infection so far.
Another patient was confirmed with an infection from Omicron was a resident of Pune Municipal Corporation, who returned from Finland on November 26.
“The four new cases of Omicron are relatives of 44-year-old NRI women from Nigeria.
They arrived at Pimpri Chinchwad on November 24 to meet their relatives.
None of them have any symptoms.
They are under care at the Civic-Run Hospital in Pimpri Chinchwad , “said the State Supervisory Officer, Dr.
Pradip Awate.
The four newly infected close contacts include women’s parents (both on sixty years) of their 40-year-old brother, and the last son of three and a half years old.
“They all do good.
They are only under care as precautions, if not, they have no symptoms that need to be worried,” said Dr.
Dragon.
In Maharashtra, Pimpri Chinchwad has the highest number of cases so far (10) – all from one family, followed by Mumbai (5), while Pune and Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation has one case.
Four of the 17 affected in Maharashtra are children, aged 1.5, 3.5, 7 and 12 years.
Dr.
Pradeep kicked, the state supervision officer, said that even though everything was not vaccinated, because they were minors, they had no symptoms.
Six of 17 Omicron patients have been repatriated from the hospital, he added.
Incidentally, all 10 cases of Pimpri-Chinchwad come from the same family.
The cluster source, until now the largest in the state, is likely that 44-year-old NRI woman from Lagos in Nigeria together with her daughter aged 12 and 18 years.
Trio meets the sister who lives in Pimpri-Chinchwad.