Omicron case in India: The highest number in Maharashtra, Delhi has added another
After such cases were reported in Delhi on Saturday, the cases of Omicron in India have gone up to 33.
Omicron cases have risen to 33 in India, with Maharashtra reporting the highest number of infections from the latest version of the coronavirus. According to local officials, Delhi, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Karnataka have also reported cases of the new coronavirus variant.
According to the Maharashtra government, so far 17 cases of omicron have been reported in the state, out of which seven patients have been discharged from the hospital after recovering from the corona virus disease (Kovid-19).
Meanwhile, a one-and-a-half-year-old girl, who tested positive for Omicron in Pimpri Chinchwad area of Maharashtra’s Pune district, has been discharged from the hospital after recovering from the infection, health officials said on Saturday.
Among the four new patients in Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) area, a three-year-old boy, who was also infected with the new strain, is asymptomatic and is healthy.
Three others—two men and one woman—are all in contact with a woman of Indian origin and her two daughters from Nigeria, who were previously found to be infected with the Omicron variant.
“Except one woman with dry cough, all patients including child are asymptomatic and are fine. The woman with dry cough also tested negative in the repeat test and was discharged along with three others. The other two women tested positive in the repeat test. And so they are in the hospital at the moment, but they are also fine,” an official told news agency PTI.
The only Omicron patient in Pune city has tested negative and was discharged on Friday. Officials said that he had returned to Pune from Finland.
Delhi on Saturday reported the second case of Omicron after a 35-year-old man who had traveled to Zimbabwe and South Africa tested positive for the latest variant after reading to India.
The man hails from Andhra Pradesh and was admitted to the national capital’s LNJP Hospital on December 5. The fully vaccinated patient complained of weakness.
LNJP Hospital, which is designated to treat patients infected with the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, currently has 35 patients. As of Friday night, 31 patients were admitted in the hospital, while four patients were brought there on Saturday, news agency PTI quoted people familiar with the developments as saying.
A 37-year-old fully immunized man who arrived in Delhi from Tanzania last Sunday became the first Omicron patient in the national capital. The Ranchi resident traveled from Tanzania to Doha and from there to Delhi on a Qatar Airways flight on December 2.
He lived in Johannesburg, South Africa for a week. The person has mild symptoms.
In Gujarat’s Jamnagar, three cases of Omicron have been reported after two contacts of a 72-year-old Zimbabwe-based NRI tested positive for the variant. Of the two Omicron patients in Karnataka, one has recovered and the other has left the country.
The coronavirus disease tally in India rose to 3,46,682,736 after 7,992 people tested positive on Saturday, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The daily increase in Covid-19 cases has been recorded below 15,000 for the last 44 days.
The health ministry also said that the death toll rose to 475,128 with 393 deaths. The ministry also said that the number of active cases came down to 93,277, the lowest in 559 days.
Omicron case in India: The highest number in Maharashtra, Delhi has added another
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