Mumbai: The case of the Mumbai Omicron Index clusters has recovered and flown back to England long before the sequencing reports of his genome came out on Tuesday, civilian authorities said.
People who have completed Covid-19 treatment and took flight home after negative testing.
The number of cases of omicron in the state remains at 32 with no new cases detected on Thursday.
Eight cases of Omicron have been found in the Mumbai Metropolitan area on Tuesday.
All are staff from an advertising agency, said state officials, adding that limbs are tested regularly before each shoot.
Dr.
Pradeep Awate, State Surveillance Officer, they said all tested around December 2 or 3 before shooting scheduled for December 4.
“In positive testing, their samples were sent for genome sequencing because one had the history of international travel from England,” Awate said.
According to the record, the man recovered and left for England around the December 10 of their samples, sent to the sequencing of the genome at the Kasturba Hospital, found Positive Omicron only this week.
After this, BMC began large contact tracking operations for all contacts from seven individuals from Mumbai.
One person is a resident of Vasai-Virar.
In the alleged ‘SuperSpreader Party’ incident, no new positive Covid case was reported on Thursday as part of the contact tracking operation carried out by BMC after several actors, including Kareena Kapoor Khan, was positively tested for the past few days.
Officials say around 30 samples, are collected as part of the tracking of contact drive which starts after the wife of the Sohail Khan actor Seema Khan is positive, out negative.
The wife of actor Sanjay Kapoor Maheep Kapoor and his daughter Shanaya Kapoor has also been tested positive after Seema Khan.
BMC has Tuesday collected 108 swab samples from four Bollywood building Personality Karan Johar, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Amrita Arora and Seema Khan.
All of these samples have also been tested negatively.
BMC also denied reports that he had ordered an investigation of a violation of quarantine protocol by actress Alia Bhatt.
Additional City of Commissioner Suresh Kakani said there were no steps like they had been ordered.
Bhatt was present at the meeting on December 8 but had been tested negatively for Covid Wednesday.
However, the BMC Health Committee for Chair of Shiv Sena Rajul Patel said that according to him, civil officials must take action against Bhatt.
“He was a high-risk contact of the person who was positively tested at a meeting in Bandra.
Even though he traveled back from another city to Mumbai and posting pictures on social media.
This will encourage more positive patients or high-risk contacts to break the quarantine norms, “Patel said Toi.