Nagpur: The genome sequencing has confirmed the existence of the Omicron variant in the sample of a 40-year-old man who returned to the city last week through Delhi from Burkino Faso in West Africa, Head of Civic Radhakrishnan B told Toi.
Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has sent 15 samples of covid positive patients to NIV Pune, including two more international leaflets.
So far, only one results have been submitted to local administration and AIIMS Nagpur.
The man has a negative RT-PCR report when he reaches Delhi but has tested Covid Positive at Nagpur Airport.
He was allowed to go to his residence in Diphori but the NMC shifted him to AIIMS Nagpur when his report was positive.
He did not show symptoms since the day entered the Special Ward AIIMS Nagpur, where a 39-year-old woman and her nine-year-old daughter also claimed to follow their journey to England.
Digori residents were not vaccinated.
He has been tested positive for Covid in April and left the city for Africa in June after RT-PCR negative.
The history of covid infection prevents it from vaccinating, civil heads.
The RT-PCR test will be carried out on the 10th day of the infection, namely December 14.
If he tested negatively, he would be allowed to go home.
His family members are also tested and found negative.
The man returned by West Africa is the first Omicron patient who was confirmed by Nagpur
