Dharwad: After a report that confirmed that a 54-year-old woman from the city of Dharwad tested positive for the Omicron strain from Novel Coronavirus, the district government has decided to adopt steps to prevent virus transmissions during the Christmas and new celebration of the year.
The woman tested positive for the new strain of the virus has received a dose of Covid-19 vaccination, and, has fully recovered from her illness, has been asked to quarantine itself at home for one week.
Darwad Deputy Commissioner Nitesh Patil Sample Swab was collected from the woman after she had a fever on December 4.
“A day later, the report confirmed that he was infected with Covid-19.
We then sent a sample for a genomic sequence, a report that arrived on Monday, confirmed that he was infected with the omicron variant,” Patil said.
See that the woman was hospitalized for five days since fever, Patil added, “We collected a swab sample from ten days after he was accepted.
The last test results confirmed that he had recovered.
The protocol determines that we must test those confirmed infected with strains Omicron twice in the 24 hour span before running out, and this test has confirmed that it has recovered.
But we will collect the swab sample once again, to be on a safer side.
“DC said that the woman did not visit other countries, adding that The fever that he contracted was the only symptom of Covid infection.
“137 people identified as primary and secondary contacts were all tested, with reports that confirmed that no one was infected.
We also tested the staff at the hospital where the woman was treated.
Because he was fully vaccinated, the symptoms were not severe, and he recovered in time A week, “Patil added.
DC said that, after the cluster outbreak at HR College, the district health department ensured that the swab sample was from all positive tests for the Coronavirus novel sent to Bengaluru for the genome sequencing.
“But the level of participants in this district is now in the range of 0.1 to 0.2%, with only three to four fresh cases reported every day,” Patil added to experts, and issued a set of new guidelines to curb the spread of Covid infection -19 During the Christmas and New Year celebrations.
“We will also oversee events where a large number of people tend to gather like marriage, Jathres, where we will ensure that the Covid protocol is strictly obeyed,” Patil said.
He added that, besides testing testing.
In all districts, the district government will increase the sentence of violations of Covid rules.