Jaipur: Someone, who arrived from England, 7 days ago, was tested positive for Covid-19 in the city on Sunday.
Sharing him infected with the Omicron variant of Covid-19, the Ministry of Health has sent him to the Ruhs Coronavirus Hospital.
He is a resident of Keshavpura.
A senior health department official said, “The sample will be sent to the sequencing of the genome to identify the Covid-19 variant that has infected him.” So far, the country has reported 17 cases of omicron covid-19 variants.
The English-Returnee was between 9 people who were positively tested for Covid-19 in the city in the last 24 hours.
The country reported 17 new Covid-19 cases which brought the total calculation to 9,55,238.
No one died of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours.
Toll stand at 8,960.
The Ministry of Health now conducts a search for people who arrive from England and are tested positive for Covid-19.
However, it has not been ascertained that he was infected with Covid-19 (Omicron).
Of the 17 reported cases, nine reported from Jaipur, four of the ajmer while the two cases were reported from Jhunjhunu and Jodhpur.
In Jaipur, active cases have been reduced from 111 to 95 in the last 24 hours.
“We are alert to the Omicron Covid-19 variant.
We begged people to continue following the appropriate Covid-19 behavior,” said Dr.
Narrettam Sharma, Head of Medical Health Officer, Jaipur-I.
Active cases in this country are also reduced from 259 to 241 because 35 people have recovered from Covid-19 in various parts of the country.
In Jaipur only, 25 people recovered in the last 24 hours, while in other parts of the country, 10 people have recovered.