Rajkot / Vadodara / Letter: The day after Gujarat registered the first case of the Omicron Covid-19 variant, the state witnessed a steady increase in the number of individuals allegedly infected with the same variant, especially in Saurashtra Belt.
Two close contacts from the 72-year-old man, someone who came from India who had returned from Zimbabwe on November 28 and was tested positive by Omicron variant, has been positively tested for Covid-19 on Sunday.
They were also allegedly infected with the same variant and admitted in the isolation ward of the G G Hospital.
Last week, other family members had been tested negatively.
But after testing the nine people who came in his close contact, his 45-year-old wife who had come with him from Zimbabwe tested positively.
His 35-year-old brother, who received it at Ahmedabad Airport, was also tested positive Covid.
“They are close contact with patients, who have tested the omicron variant of positive.
We suspect that they are also infected with the same variant.
We have sent their samples to sequencing genomes,” said Vijay Kharadi, Commissioner of Jamnagar City.
While both patients without symptoms, other close contacts are under observations in temporary insulation areas expressed as micro detention zones.
In the city of Limbdi Surendranagar, a 48-year-old man who has returned from South Africa before three days, was tested positive for Covid-19.
The sample was sent to the National Institute of Virology for genome sequencing because he was treated as a suspect.
Health officials have declared a micro detention zone covering four houses in a while eight individuals have been placed under quarantine at home.
Elsewhere in the state, the number of Covid-19 cases also witnessed a stable increase in Vadodara, the number of fresh Covid-19 cases registered in 24 hours ended Sunday night touching seven, taking the total Covid-19 case since the beginning of the pandemic in the district became 72,351.
The positive Covid-19 fresh case has been reported from Akota, Tarsali, Makarpura, Diwalipura, Subhanpura, Warasiya and Navi Dharti area of the city.
The number of active cases in Vadodara stands in 53 conditions 48 patients are said to be stable.
While four patients were being treated under oxygen support, one patient was under ventilator support.
Even when the number of active cases in their 50s, 236 individuals are currently under quarantine in Vadodara.
The official death toll on the other hand stood at 623, left by the Health Bulletin Corporation Vadodara Municipal.
In Vadodara, a positive Covid-19 fresh case has been reported from Akota, Tarsali, Makarpura, Diwalipura, Subhanpura, Warasiya and Navi Dharti City Area.
The number of active cases in Vadodara stands in 53 conditions 48 patients are said to be stable.
While four patients were being treated under oxygen support, one patient was under ventilator support.
Even when the number of active cases in their 50s, 236 individuals are currently under quarantine in Vadodara.
The official death toll on the other hand stood at 623, left by the Health Bulletin Corporation Vadodara Municipal.
In the city and district mail, which has seen five cases on Saturday, the number of new cases increased to eight.
Of the eight new cases registered on Sunday, five patients belonging to the same family in Rander.
Kamrej also enrolled a fresh positive case even when the district recorded death in 24 hours.
Five positive cases in Rander including a 16-year-old boy, a 18-year-old girl, two women aged 52 and 75 years and another 78-year-old man.
The spread of omicron causes great worries in Gujarat
