Pimpri Chinchwad: a toothache of a 12-year-old girl repeating it from Nigeria with her family to twin cities on November 24 leads to the discovery of Covid infection and subsequent detection of the Omicron variant in the family.
The girl’s family wants to take her to the dentist, who is looking for a negative certificate of RT-PCR.
The RT-PCR test revealed that he was positive Covid.
A PCMC official said each Zonal medical officer received a notification of daily positive cases.
“Notification followed by tracking and testing close contact people who tested Covid-19 positive.
The same procedure followed in the girl’s case,” the official said.
Introductory investigation revealed that the girl had returned from Nigeria to the city of Twin a few days before testing the positive covid.
“Four family members have been tested negatively in the first test, the second test was carried out on them and the results of ‘covid positive’.
All of them were quarantined at Jijamata Hospital,” he added.
“If the RT-PCR test reveals a positive Covid case, we visit the person’s house.
Depending on the symptoms, we tell the patient to choose a house or institutional quarantine.
In the case of the girl, we did a RT-PC test from close contact.
Five family members , including both who accompanied the girl from Nigeria to Pimbri Chinchwad through Mumbai, tested positively, “the official said.
“We sent their samples to NIV in accordance with the norms related to people who returned from countries categorized as ‘risks’ following the emergence of omicron.
Among family members who tested the positive Omicron was an 18-month-old child.
Everything is not Shows symptoms.
Regular multivitamin doses have been prescribed for them, “he said.
PCMC officials said patients would be in institutional quarantine until they tested a negative double for Covid.