Jaipur: Fourteen of 17 people infected by Omicron have tested negative twice through the RT-PCR test.
Three who have not tested negatively come from Ajitgarh from Sikar.
“Fourteen of the 17 Omicron cases have recovered and dismissed from hospitals.
Three patients in Sikar have not run out,” said a senior health department official.
On Monday, the Ministry of Health has announced that eight people tested positive for Omicron through the sequencing of the genome took the overall calculation to 17.
When the genome sequencing test results arrived, five had recovered from the hospital.
A health official said, “It happened because the genome sequencing test to identify Covid variants took about five days.
When someone was diagnosed with Covid through the RT-PCR test, the sample was taken for the genome sequencing.
However, in some cases, patients recovered early and Discarded before the genome sequencing report arrived.
“” The remaining three patients recovered.
They have been tested negatively in the first RT-PCR test but not on the second, which we do now.
Only after they tested negatively in two consecutive tests, they will Dismissed from the hospital.
They underwent treatment at the Ajitgarh government hospital, “said Dr.
Ajay Chaudhary, Chief Medical Health Officer (Sikar).