Chandigarh / Bengaluru: Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Chandigarh reported their first Omicron case on Sunday, while Maharashtra and Karnataka each recorded another Covid-19 variant, took counting in the country to 38.
All five people in this case.
Reported on Sundays arrived from abroad.
According to state health officials, a man who was fully vaccinated by 20 years who came to Chandigarh from Italy to meet his relatives and a 34-year-old foreign traveler, who came from Ireland to Mumbai and then to Visakhapatnam at Andhra Pradesh, had been tested positive for the variant.
Health Minister Kerala Veena George said the first case of the Covid-19 variant Omicron had been confirmed in the state.
In a video posted on his Facebook page, the minister said that patients were native residents of Kerala who had recently come from England.
The patient’s condition is stable and does not need to panic because the government takes all the necessary steps to curb the spread of the new variant of the virus, he said.
A man who has arrived from South Africa became a third person to test the Covid-19 variant in Karnataka, while a 40-year-old man was tested positive after returning to Nagpur in Maharashtra from the West African country, taking the calculation of the Omicron case case until this, Omicron has been detected in Maharashtra (18), Rajasthan (9), Karnataka (3), Karnataka (3), Kerala (1) and Andhra Pradesh (1) and the United States Delhi (1) and Union 2) and Chandigarh (1) .
The man in Chandigarh has landed in India on November 22 and is currently in institutional quarantine.
Seven family contacts are at high risk under quarantine and tested for Covid-19 with the RT-PCR method.
Everyone tested negatively, the official statement said.
It is said that travelers have been without symptoms.
“He was fully inoculated with the Pfizer vaccine he got in Italy.
He has been stored in isolation for the past 11 days.” The report for the original genomical sequencing was received late at night on December 11 and has been found positive for the Omicron variant, “the statement said.
In the case of Andhra Pradesh, the State Health Department said the person, who first landed in Mumbai from Ireland, was tested and found negative for Covid-19.
He was later allowed to travel to Visakhapatnam on November 27 on November 27.
“When doing the second RT-PCR test in Vizianagaram, he tested the positive Covid-19.
The sample was then sent to the cellular and molecular biology center in Hyderabad for the genome sequencing and the results came out as a positive omicron, “said the Director of Public Health in the release.
However, it has no symptoms and Re.
-Test on December 11 shows Her Covid-19 negative.” There are no other Omicron cases in the state, “said the director 10 cases were accepted and only one of them were confirmed by Positive Omicron, “The Director added.
The omicron variant was first detected in India in Bengaluru with two positive testing people consisting of South African from India and doctors.” The third case #omicron has been detected in Karnataka.
A 34-year-old man who returned from South Africa has been tested positively.
He is isolated and treated at a government hospital.
5 Primary and 15 Secondary Contacts have been tracked and samples are sent for testing, “State Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar Tweeted.
On Saturday, Delhi has reported the second case – a 35-year-old man with a history of travel to Zimbabwe and South Africa – taking the Indian calculation to 33.
Omicron cases, which are categorized as “variants of concern” by the World Health Organization, have been detected in around 60 countries.