Hyderabad: Passengers who are flying from the UK who landed at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) Shamshabad on Saturday was tested positive for Covid-19 and samples were taken for genome sequencing.
According to the latest report, it has been predicted that Britain is likely to face the main omicron wave next year.
With this, three samples (two sent on Friday) are eagerly awaited for the results of the genome sequencing.
On Saturday, a total of 532 passengers landed at the airport.
So far, 3,767 passengers have arrived at Shamshabad airports from high-risk countries.
Meanwhile, Telangana saw 188 new Covid-19 cases and one death on Saturday.
4,761 reports are waiting.
The number of active cases in the state is 3.891.
The total number of cases from the beginning of the pandemic last year stood at 6.78,142 and the death toll was at 4,005.
As many as 193 patients were declared recovered on Saturday, taking the total number of patients recovered to 6,70,246.
The case fatality rate (CFR) stood at 0.59 percent while the recovery rate was at 98.83 percent.
On Saturday, 35,978 samples were tested for Coronavirus novels.
Telangana has now completed a sample test of 2.89 Crore and has reached 7.78 lakh testing samples per million populations.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) recorded 78 cases on Saturday, while the neighbor Medchal-Malkajiri recorded 12 new cases.
Rangareddy recorded 12 new cases and Sangareddy recorded four new cases.
Outside the city of Hyderabad and its edges, Hanamkonda in Warangal with 21 new cases recorded the highest number of cases outside the GHMC limit.