Pune: The State Public Health Officer on Saturday indicated that Pune was on the verge of the Omicron Community Transmission after six of nearly 96 samples sorted by the district of detected with a new Covid variant.
“The remaining 90 samples have deltas and sub-lineages,” said an official to TI.
A health department bulletin issued on Saturday stated that the results of the genome sequencing came from community supervision exercises carried out by B J Medical College, Pune, to find the transmission of the Omicron community in the city.
A health official department said, “There are indications that the Omicron community transmission may have begun in Mumbai.
Among the 96 samples of the community analyzed from Pune, the existence of Delta and its sub-lineage in the majority.
Omicron was found in six.
But six This case has no history of international travel.
“The official added,” Six cases with Omicron also did not have contact with international tourists, the factors pointing before the variant in the community.
However, the presence of Omicron in Pune does not seem to scale the same as Mumbai , from which a large number of samples have so far been detected with variants.
“The Ministry of Health of the State Community has several days ago releasing details of 38 cases of Omicron reported by Iiser from its community supervision training.
According to the initial information, all 38 cases from the country have no international travel history.
A total of 19 cases, or the majority of 38 infections, came from Mumbai, five of Kalyan Dombivali, three of each of the Navi Mumbai and Pimpri Chinchwad, two of the Vasai Virar and the limit of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and each of them Pune Rural, Bhiwandi Nizampur, Panvel and the Thane Municipal company area.
This means that six of the 38 omicron cases in community supervision exercise found from the Pune District.
Other public health officials said, “If people are detected by omicron positive among samples of people in various civil regions, including Mumbai and Pune, then it shows that the transmission of new variants in the community may have begun.”