Mangaluru: Although six people in Dakshina Kannada have been positively tested for the Omicron strain of the novel Coronavirus, only one of them is still infected.
The district reported the Sixth Omicron case on Monday, traced back to the nursing college group.
Students confirmed infected on Saturday.
Dakshina Regency District Surveillance District officer Dr.
Jagadeesh said, “All six who have been tested positive for the Omicron strain are students, four of them come from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya.
However, no one traveled abroad.” Dakshina Kannada Covid-19 officers Nodal Dr.
Ashok H said that, “The only person who is still infected with a new strain of viruses is a nurse student, and does not show symptoms of infection.
We have talked to students, and sending samples for RT-PCR tests.” Meanwhile, two people again confirmed infected with a new variant of the Coronavirus novel in the neighboring udupi district.
Officials in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi have directed authority in their respective health departments to track the source of omicron infection.
The health department official in Udupi has sent a sample of two individuals for the genome sequencing after a family of four was tested positive for the Coronavirus novel.
A 82-year-old man and his 73-year-old wife has been tested positive for the Omicron variant.
Deputi Udupi Commissioner M Kurma Rao said, “None of them display any symptoms even though the woman is a cancer patient.” Rao said that the swab sample of 167 people had been sent to be tested using genome sequencing so far.
“We have received results 33 of them,” DC said.
Udupi District Health Officer Dr.
Nagabhushan Udoma said that the husband and wife who were confirmed by the new variant had received a covid vaccine dose – the first dose in March, and the second in May.
“In fact, a 11-year-old girl in the family was tested for Covid-19 because she wanted to go to Bengaluru to attend the class on campus.
When he was confirmed infected on November 26, his family member was tested,” said Dr.
Udaya.
11 Cases in the DK, the Udupi District of Pesisir Regency Dakshina Kannada and Udupi on Monday reported 11 fresh Covid-19 cases.
While Dakshina Kannada reported six new cases, taking the calculation of active cases to 168, five people were tested positively tested.
Kaseload actively in Udupi now stands at 25.