Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Delhi registered its cases omicron novel form coronavirus On Sunday, the total number of confirmed cases in the county rose to 21.
The first two cases were reported in Karnataka, one in Jamnagar (Gujarat) and the other in Maharashtra.
In Pune, six people from a family in Pimpri-Chinchwad municipal area – including a 44-year-old woman – who came to Maharashtra from Lagos in Nigeria on November 24 with their two daughters, aged 12 and 18 . The Omron version of the coronavirus.
His 45-year-old brother and his two daughters aged 7 and 18 months have also tested positive for the omicron variant following genome sequencing carried out at the National Institute of Virology in Pune. All three infected adults in the family have been fully vaccinated – two of them with Covshield and one with covaxin,
While the 44-year-old has mild symptoms, the other five patients are asymptomatic. Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Commissioner Rajesh Patil said that all the patients are being treated at Jijamata Hospital in Pimpri-Chinchwad and their condition is stable. Indian Express,
Maharashtra’s Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Dr Pradeep Vyas told The Indian Express that the total number of omicron positive patients in the state now stands at 8.
“We traced 13 of the close contacts of three international travelers, three of whom have been identified with Omicron,” Vyas said.
Apart from the six family members, a 47-year-old man from Pune also tested positive for the Omicron variant. According to Dr Sanjeev Vavre, Assistant Medical Officer, Pune Municipal Corporation, he had visited Finland for six days between November 18 and 25 and was tested positive on November 29 after he developed mild fever. After he was found to be COVID positive, a genome sequencing conducted at the National Chemical Laboratory confirmed the presence of the omicron. He was fully vaccinated from Covishield.
State Health Minister Rajesh Tope said, “WHO is studying this version in detail and we are waiting for the ICMR protocol. We have appealed to the citizens not to panic and adopt COVID-appropriate behaviour.”
Pune District Collector Rajesh Deshmukh also made a similar appeal.
In Jaipur, nine people who attended a wedding on November 28 have tested positive for the Omicron variant, health officials said. Medical Education Secretary Vaibhav Galaria told that four of the nine had come from South Africa a few days ago.
At least 100 people attended the November 28 wedding; Health officials have taken samples of 34 people so far. “Of these, omicron has been confirmed in nine cases through genome sequencing, while 25 others have tested negative for Covid,” Galleria said.
While four who flew in from South Africa have been admitted to the Rajasthan University of Health Sciences (RUHS), others have been kept under home isolation. RUHS superintendent Dr Ajit Singh said the four admitted are “asymptomatic” and five are “doing fine” even in home isolation.
The Delhi case is of a 30-year-old man who had come to the city from Tanzania on a flight and was admitted to Delhi’s Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan (LNJP) Hospital after he tested positive for Covid at the Indira Gandhi International Airport last week. had gone.
“His close contacts during the flight are also in isolation at LNJP Hospital. There were 17 COVID patients who were flown from the airport to LNJP (since the new rules were implemented for passengers from ‘at risk countries’). Their contacts – six so far – are also under observation in the hospital and they are being tested,” said Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain.
According to officials, the patient who came from Tanzania was fully vaccinated. Another 11 patients who have tested positive for COVID but do not have the Omron variant will not be discharged from the hospital. “They will be under observation for a few days now. At present, none of them is seriously ill,” said the doctor.
(With inputs from ENS, Jaipur, Mumbai and New Delhi)
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