Manali: Himachal Pradesh reported the first case of Omicron from the Bathroom district on Sunday.
A 45-year-old Canadian Returnee woman was tested negative for Covid-19 on Friday but had been positively tested for the new Omicron variant on Sunday.
The woman has returned from Canada at Port Sea Mundra on 3.
He was tested positive for Covid-19 after the RT-PCR sample was examined at IGMC Shimla on December 12.
Then the sample was sent to the center of the National Disease, Delhi to sequencing all genomes (WGS) on December 18.
While the woman was tested negative for Covid-19 after the RT-PCR test on Friday, a genome sequencing report for Positive Omicron on Sunday.
Officials said the woman was entirely vaccinated with the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine and she had taken both doses on April 25.
Patients are in isolation of houses and contacts are also tested negatively for this disease.
Director of the National Health Mission, Shimla, Hemraj Bairwa, said, “The woman was in house isolation and tested negatively for Covid-19 before the WGS report was sampled from Delhi.
No need to panic.
Contact search is done on priority.
The main contact has been tested negatively.
However, we are alert.
“Bairwa said besides this woman, reported six more samples that had been sent for WGS still awaited while three more samples were sent to WGS to Delhi on Sunday.
The first case of Omicron case originated from the bath district the day before the public meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Modi will attend the function on the land of Paddal bathing on the occasion of the four-year settlement of the administration of Jai Ram.
The Chairman of the Minister of Jai Ram Thakur has claimed that more than 50,000 people will come to listen to Modi on Monday.
CM said on Saturday that there was no need to worry because Himachal had not reported the Omicron case.
He said the government was not interested in forcing limitations such as other countries because Himachal had very few Covid-19 cases.
However, he said the government could think about imposing strict restrictions if the case surge was reported in the near future.