On Saturday, Gujarat reported its firstomicron positive case in India. It is the third confirmed omicron case in India now. Gujarat health commissioner Jai Prakash Shivhare has said that aJamnagar resident, 72 years old, was found infected with Omicron.
Genome sequencing was done after his samplewas found positive during the test of corona at the airport, in which he wasfound infected with the new variant.
Three people of Indian origin had returned toJamnagar from Zimbabwe last week. The test reports of the other two persons arepending. The person had arrived at Ahmedabad airport, from where he wentto Jamnagar. At present, the patient is kept in the isolation ward of theDental College.
Earlier, Karnataka had reported the first twocases two days ago. Both were aged 66 and 46 respectively. They both have takenboth doses of vaccine. Balram Bhargava, Director General, Indian Council ofMedical Research (ICMR) said, "Two cases of Omicron have been detected inKarnataka so far through genome sequencing effort of INSACOG consortium of 37laboratories established by the Ministry of Health. We need not panic, butawareness is absolutely essential. Covid appropriate behaviour is required.”
So far, 22 cases of the Omicron variant havebeen identified in England and 10 in Scotland, the UK Health Security Agency(UKHSA) stated.
Jenny Harries, UKHSA Chief Executive, said,"It is very likely that we will find more cases over the coming days, aswe are seeing in other countries globally and as we increase case detectionthrough focused contact tracing."
"That's why it's critical that anyonewith Covid-19 symptoms isolates and gets a PCR test immediately," Harriesadded.