COVID-19: Kerala detected its first Omicron case on December 12. (file)
Thiruvananthapuram:
Four more new cases of Omicron type coronavirus were detected from Kerala on Monday, taking the total number to 15, the state health department said.
Two cases of the new type were found in patients aged 41 and 67. They are the mother and grandmother of a 17-year-old patient in Thiruvananthapuram, who had come from the UK on December 9 along with her father, mother and sister.
His grandmother was on the contact list.
Two other cases of the Omicron variant were detected from Thiruvananthapuram – a 32-year-old man who had come from Nigeria on December 17 and a 27-year-old woman who was on the contact list of a flight passengers. She had come from UK on 12 December.
The new variant was confirmed in a test conducted at the Rajiv Gandhi Center for Biotechnology in Thiruvananthapuram.
The state had detected its first Omicron case in Ernakulam district on December 12, when a person who had returned from the UK tested positive.
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