Thane The 33- time-old man from Maharashtra’s Thane quarter, who had tested positive for the Omicron variant of coronavirus, is in a” stable” condition and is responding well to the medical treatment, a elderly health functionary said on Sunday The marine mastermind is presently witnessing treatment at a COVID-19 care centre in Kalyan city, located about 50 km from the state capital Mumbai.
Samples of six other people, who tested positive for the coronavirus after arriving in Kalyan-Dombivli area of Thane quarter from different countries, have been transferred for genome sequencing and the results are awaited, another functionary said.
The marine mastermind, a occupant of Dombivli city, arrived in Delhi from South Africa on November 23 and had given his samples for COVID-19 testing at the Delhi field. He’d also taken a flight to Mumbai, sources before said He’s stable and responding well to treatment,” deputy director of health services, Mumbai circle, Dr Gauri Rathod told PTI The case will continue to be treated at the COVID-19 care centre in Kalyan and won’t be shifted away, she said.
He’ll suffer the treatment protocol, as specified for the Omicron variant, for 14 days, the functionary said Besides this case, six other people who had travelled from different countries to the Kalyan-Dombivli area, have tested positive for the coronavirus and are kept in insulation, Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation’s epidemic cell principal Dr Pratibha Panpatil said.
They include four from Nigeria, and one each from Russia and Nepal Their samples have been transferred for genome sequencing and the results will be known in the coming days, Dr Panpatil said The condition of all the six is stable. They’re asymptomatic and none of them had come from high- threat countries,”she added.
Cases of the Omicron variant have also been detected in Karnataka, Gujarat and Delhi According to the Centre, the countries designated as”at- threat”are European countries, including the UK, and South Africa, Brazil, Botswana, China, Mauritius, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Singapore, Hong Kong and Israel Under the new morals, RT-PCR tests are obligatory for passengers arriving from the”at- threat” countries and they will be allowed to leave the field only after the results come Also, two per cent of the passengers arriving by breakouts from other countries will be subordinated to the test aimlessly. PTI COR
