With 2 more positive patients, the tally of Omicron cases goes upto 4 in India

Dec. 4: A 72-year-old man has tested positive for Omicron, the new COVID-19 variant, in Jamnagar city of Gujarat following his return from Zimbabwe — of the “at-risk” countries — as per reports. This is the third Omicron case in India. The sample of the Jamnagar resident, a 72-year-old man, was sent for genome sequencing after he tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday. A micro-containment zone has been created where the Omicron-infected man stays and Gujarat officials are tracing and testing people there.

The 4th Omicron variant was also detected on Saturday from near Mumbai. A man from Maharashtra who travelled to Mumbai from South Africa via Dubai and Delhi has been found positive for the Omicron variant of coronavirus. The 33-year-old person arrived in Mumbai on 24 November from Capetown, South Africa through Dubai and Delhi. He has not taken any vaccine. Twelve of his high-risk contacts and 23 of the low-risk contacts have been traced and all have been tested negative for Covid-19.

The Omicron variant, the latest ‘variant of concern’, reached Indian shores earlier this week after the government announced that two positive cases had been traced in Karnataka. The other two confirmed cases in India are of a 46-year-old fully vaccinated doctor from Bengaluru, who had no travel history and developed symptoms of fever and body ache, and a 66-year-old South African national who came to India with a negative COVID-19 report.