PANAJI: The case of Omicron Goa increased to five on Monday with three women and a local man who tested positive for the latest Covid variant.
Three women have international travel history.
Positive local testing for the Omicron variant of Covid-19, Minister of Health Vishwajit Rane said, “shows the indigenous spread that needs to be examined further.” Two weeks ago, the country detected its first Omicron case in an eight-year-old boy, a UK Returnee.
He was sent home after 14 days in isolation earlier this week.
A senior health official said the local had gone outside the country, even though he did not return from a foreign country.
Interestingly, the results of the genome sequencing received after four had completed isolation, and in the case of the local man, it was ten days from home quarantine.
“The women were in isolation for 14 days.
The man was in the quarantine house for ten days.
We checked on time, everything was fit and was fine,” said health officials.
Due to the lack of facility of agendome sequencing, Goa has been forced to rely on laboratories outside the country, and because of large fat, do not accept the results on time.
Health services have sent several samples of travelers for genome sequencing, but some results have been received so far.
In accordance with the Epidemiology of the State Dr.
Utkarsh Betodkar, produced more than 500 samples taken from the local population over the past few months, and sent for genome sequencing, still awaited.
Because the omicron variant appears, priority is given to traveler samples, and if they are selected from the case group.
Since last week, Goa has reported a sharp increase in Covid infection, while the number of active cases passes 2,000-mark on Monday.