HubbalLi: The Dharwad District Government has decided to bring the police and Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation to enforce Covid guidelines at Hubballi-Dharwad and other taluks in the Dharwad district after two new Omicron cases were confirmed in the district.
With the total number of Omicron cases have increased to 3 in the last three weeks in the District 62.
The level of participants is 1% now.
“On Monday, the two new Omicron cases were confirmed.
A 53-year-old woman and a 14-year-old girl from Hubballi City have been tested positive for Omicron, a new strain of the virus.
The woman is a teacher in the Railway School in Hubballi and the girl is a student at the same school.
A woman was tested positively on December 19 and girl on December 17.
Their samples were sent for genome sequencing.
Their report confirmed that they had been tested positively omicron on Monday, “said Deputy Commissioner Nitesh Patil.
There are no people with history of travel recently and both have mild symptoms.
Patil said the first test they had also returned negative results.
“We will send their samples for the second test.
If the second test report changes negatively, the quarantine of their home will end,” he said.
“We have tested all 395 people, including students and school staff.
Their negative reports.
We will once again test All 395 people to confirm that they were not infected by Omicron, “Patil added.
The woman who had tested Omicron positive was fully vaccinated.
Stratik Enforcement Covid Normspatil said that the district government has decided “to strictly uphold Covid norms, including wearing masks and use of sanitiser.
I have held a meeting with the Police Department and HDMC officers to enforce Covid norms strictly and increase steps Like punishing people because they did not wear masks and did not follow the norms in the district.
“He appealed to people to wear masks and avoid the crowd and.
Follow other instructions seriously over the next two months.
Of the 62 active cases, nine people have been hospitalized, while the rest is a quarantine house, he added.
Two cases of omicron in Dharwad, police and HDMC to enforce Covid norms
