Hyderabad: Telangana on Tuesday reported four new Omicron cases, including the first local infection after a doctor at the Hospital company was tested positive for a deadly variant, raising the total number of up to 24.
The authorities said the doctor was in contact with the patient Omicron, who underwent treatment for cancer.
It is still unclear, how doctors meet with cancer patients who have flown from non-risk countries a week ago.
The health authority also launched a massive exercise to test family members, colleagues and close contact doctors.
The hospital authority is also a high warning.
Three other tests are positive are foreigners from Sudan and Somalia.
In Maharashtra, there are two cases of separate local infections so far.
In one case, a foreign return infects eight colleagues at work and in another example, a man infects his girlfriend after returning from South Africa.
In addition to four people who tested the positive Omicron in Hyderabad, four other passengers were positively tested for Covid-19 in the RT-PC test conducted at the airport.
Their sample has been sent for genome sequencing.
Of 24 cases Omicron reported so far, four came from high-risk countries, 19 came from non-risk countries, while doctors were locals.
Authorities advise people to be careful, avoid meeting and wearing the right mask.
The state has recorded 12 cases of omicron covid-19 variants on Saturday.
The majority of cases detected are international passengers have come from high-risk countries say health authorities and are foreign nationals.
“Most foreign nationals are most medical tourists who come here from some treatments.
There are passengers who come from Kenya, Somalia, England, Ghana, Tanzania and cities such as Doha, Abu Dhabi and Dubai, among others,” said a source in the department Health health.
All patients omicron in stable state.