Omicron: The person who had taken both doses of the coronavirus vaccine had no symptoms.
Bangalore:
A 66-year-old man who has become one of India’s First two cases of Omicron coronavirus cases Arrived in the country on November 20 and flew to Dubai seven days later, official records showed on Thursday.
According to the Brihat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the Municipal Corporation of Bengaluru, the man had arrived from South Africa with a negative COVID-19 test report at the city’s international airport on November 20.
He was vaccinated with both doses of the coronavirus vaccine.
On his arrival, he checked in at a hotel on the same day and was found positive for COVID-19.
When a government doctor visited him at the hotel, he was found to be asymptomatic and was advised to self-isolate.
Being a traveler from one of the nations designated “at-risk” in view of the Omicron breakout, her samples were re-collected and sent for genome sequencing on November 22.
All the 24 people who came in contact with him were tested and found negative for COVID-19. Officials also tested 240 secondary contacts – people who had come in contact with Patent’s primary contacts – and found them to be negative as well.
Separately, on November 23, the man took another COVID-19 test at a private lab and the result came back negative.
At midnight on 27 November, he checked out of the hotel, took a cab to the airport and boarded a flight to Dubai.
that he had omicron version of coronavirus It was officially confirmed only on Thursday in the briefing of the Union Health Ministry in Delhi.
Health ministry joint secretary Lav Agarwal said his identity was not disclosed to protect his privacy.
Apart from them, another person – a 46-year-old health worker in Bengaluru – has also tested positive for the Omicron variant.
First discovered in southern Africa, the highly contagious strain represents a new challenge to global efforts to fight the pandemic, with many countries already reimposing restrictions they hoped will be past a matter of.
It is the latest coronavirus strain to emerge since the start of the pandemic, including the currently dominant delta variant, which was first detected in India in October 2020.
While early signs have suggested heavily mutated omicron While apparently more contagious than the previous forms, there is no evidence that the strain is any fatal.
Here is the travel history of the patient issued by the Bengaluru Municipal Corporation:
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