Panaji: Four of the five samples of Russian and Georgia crew members from the cargo ship sent to the genome sequencing have been tested negatively for the new Omicron variant of Covid-19.
One sample that fails during processing will be retested.
With this, eight Suspects Omicron Goa are now down.
“The Russian Embassy relates to Goa after its citizens are tested positive for Covid-19,” a health official said.
Four suspects Omicron Goa are awaiting the results of quencing genomes from the National Center for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune, all without symptoms on Saturday.
One of the omitted crew members and was treated at SMRC in Chicalim, was transferred to the insulation facility at the Cansaulim Health Center where four other crew members and three people were again isolated.
If the UK Returnees tested the negative for Omicron variants, they will be allowed to continue their isolation at home because they provide local addresses.
They will be treated as other positive Covid-19 people in the state, the epidemiology of the country of Dr.
Utkarsh Betodkar.
Contacts of three UK passengers who test positive include fellow travelers with the same flights.
In accordance with the health protocol, passengers sit three lines behind three English passengers, three lines in front and in the same line are also being tested.
Each positive passenger test will be transferred to the state insulation facility until they test the negative for Omicron.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health also began to reach people who returned from risky countries and were tested negatively on arrival.
Every traveler will be sent for testing at eight days in accordance with the central government guidelines.
Travelers who arrived in the state have gone to health centers.
In addition to passengers from British flights who arrive in Goa, health services also track them that have arrived in cave from risky countries through other airports.
“The amount is large and running to 1,000.
We accept the details of those who come from high-risk countries from other airports.
Health services and collectorate trace them.
They face difficulties in some cases where people have shared foreign telephone numbers,” said Epidemiology of Betodkar State.