Bengaluru: Karnataka reported five new cases of Omicron variants from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours took the total number of Omicron cases in the 19th state.
Minister of Health K Sudhakar on Monday Tweet, “Five cases Omicron had been confirmed on December 19.” Case Newly detected is a 54-year-old woman from Dharwad, a 20-year-old female student from Bhadravathi in Shivamogga, a 82-year-old man and a 73-year-old woman from the same family in Udupi and a 19-year-old girl from Mangaluru.
Cases from Udupi and Mangaluru are part of the cluster sent for genome sequences, which confirm the existence of Omicron.
“In the Udupi cluster, first of all 11-year-old boys from the family were tested positive in the last week of November.
After four main contacts were tested and three changed positively covid and the sample was sent for sequencing genomes,” said the Ministry of Health Authority.
The Dharwad woman who has been the first case of Omicron in the district has been tested positively Covid on December 5, is treated in house isolation and has been freed from the current symptoms, according to the release of the Ministry of Health.
He has four main contacts and 133 secondary contacts all undergo covid testing and everything is negative.
In the case of Bhadravathi students who have been detected by Omicron, he has tested positive on December 6.
A total of 218 contacts have undergone testing where 26 has been found positive for Covid.
“Including him, a total of 27 cases have been seen in the clusters and reports throughout the sequencing of the genome for the remaining 26 awaited,” the officer said.
This is the first Omicron case detected in Shivamogga.
With that, Omicron has been detected in six Karnataka districts such as Bengaluru, Besavavi, Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Dharwad and Shivamogga.
The first two omicron cases in India were reported from Karnataka on December 2 in an international passenger from South Africa and a doctor from Bengaluru.