AHMEDABAD/MUMBAI: India confirmed its fourth case of Omicron variant of Coronavirus, hours after a senior citizen from Gujarat was found infected with the highly transmissible variant.
Two more cases of the Omicron variant were reported on Saturday with a 72-year-old NRI man from Gujarat and a 33-year-old man from Maharashtra found infected with the new strain after they came from the “at-risk” countries of Zimbabwe and South Africa respectively taking to four the total number of such cases in the country.
As states tighten curbs to keep the Omicron variant at bay, the Centre has advised them to undertake enhanced surveillance of international travellers and also monitor emerging Covid hotspots.
While Gujarat’s Commissioner of Health Jai Prakash Shivhare confirmed that the elderly Non-Resident Indian from Jamnagar city has tested positive for the Omicron variant, Maharashtra health department director Dr Archana Patil confirmed that a man from Kalyan Dombivli municipal area near Mumbai was found infected by the potentially contagious variant. These were the first cases of the Omicron variant for the two western states.
The country’s first two cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 were reported on Thursday in Karnataka — in a 66-year-old South African flyer and a 46-year-old Bengaluru doctor with no travel history and both men fully vaccinated.
The NRI man had arrived in Gujarat from Zimbabwe on November 28 and had tested positive for Coronavirus on December 2, after which his sample was sent for genome sequencing, officials said. He was fully vaccinated, they said.
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