Jaipur: Nine family members test positive for Omicron

The national tally of the variant now stands at 21.

In the report of genome sequencing of a family from South Africa in the state, Medical Secretary Vaibhav Galaria informed that the family who returned recently from South Africa have been admitted to RUHS.

The Secretary said that samples of 25 people who came in contact with these people were tested and they were found to be negative.He said that all the people who came in contact are being sampled after doing contact tracing on a large scale.

Galaria informed that the department was fully active since the arrival of the family from South Africa in Jaipur and their monitoring was being done continuously.

He said that intensive contract tracing is being done by the department and treatment will be started after identifying all the people who came in contact.

Seven more people have been found infected with the Omicron variant in Maharashtra, taking the case tally to eight in the state while the nationwide tally has reached 12.

While six cases were reported from Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal area, one was detected in the Pune district, the state health department said.

Among those whose samples turned positive with the new variant were a 44-year old woman, who had come from Nigeria to Pimpri-Chinchwad near Pune, her two daughters, her brother and his two daughters.

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Besides, a 47-year old man, who had travelled to Finland last month, was also found to be positive with the new strain.

The woman is a Nigerian citizen of Indian origin and had come to Pimpri-Chinchwad on November 24 along with her daughters (12 and 18 years old), to meet her brother.

The health department said that the Nigerian woman has mild symptoms and the other five have no symptoms at all.

“Out of the six people, three are under 18 years of age and therefore have not taken any vaccine. The three adults have taken both doses of vaccine – 2 have taken Covishield and one had taken Covaxin,” the department added.

The male patient was detected by the state authorities through routine surveillance in Pune. The department said that the patient is in stable condition and has not shown any symptoms so far.

“He had visited Finland from 18th to 25th November 2021. He was tested owing to mild fever on 29th November and was found Covid positive. He has taken both doses of Covishield vaccine and he is completely stable without any symptoms,” according to the health department.

A day ago, a 33-year-old man who had travelled South Africa was found infected with the new variant in Dombivali.

The first two cases of Omicron were reported in Karnataka. On Saturday, the third and the fourth case of the infection were reported from Gujarat's Jamnagar and Maharashtra's Dombivli, respectively.
Earlier today, a 37-year-old returnee from Tanzania was found infected with Omicron in Delhi.

(With UNI inputs)