Vadodara: Four more cases of omicrons were reported in the city on Friday.
With this, Omicron’s calculation has risen to 14.
New cases including a 67-year-old man who is closely related to the old couple from Harni who has returned to Vadodara from Zambiawere and found infected with the previous variant.
Seven other contacts from the couple were found positive for Omicron on Thursday.
With this all the eight close contacts have been tested positive for Omicron.
The second Omicron patient is a 43-year-old man who lives in the area in the city.
He has tested positive Covid-19 at Ahmedabad airport on Sunday after he arrived from Tanzania.
He was under hospital insulation while the results of the genome sequencing was awaited.
There was no local contact from this person because he shifted to the hospital directly from the airport.
The couple from the Nizampura area including a 53-year-old man and his 47-year-old wife returned to the city of Zambia on December 14 and was isolated at home.
Their tests were carried out on December 15 found positive for Covid-19.
The results of the genome sequencing received on Friday revealed that they were infected by the Omicron variant.
They shift to hospital isolation.
The contact of the couple from Nizampura includes 12 people, including 11 found negatives.
One close contact was found positively and the sample was also sent for genome sequencing.
On Friday, 12 cases of new Covid-19 were reported in the city and district of 5,642 tests.
On the same day 17 people were dismissed after recovery left 96 active cases in the hospital, which was serious.