Chandigarh. The new variant ‘Omicron’, a new variant of Coronavirus, five times deadly than Delta, is spreading rapidly around the world including India. So far this virus has engulfed eight states of the country. So far 38 cases have been confirmed in the country. Out of this, five new cases have been reported in five states on Sunday. Meanwhile, the second report of Omicron patient in Chandigarh has come negative.
According to the Health Department of Chandigarh, this youth had returned from Italy on 22 November and his corona report was found positive on 1 December. Today again the corona test of the youth has been done, whose report is yet to come. The young man has received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
Health Dept, Chandigarh: A 20 -year-old male resident of Italy who was reported positive for Omicron has now tested COVID negative. His 7 family contacts who had been quarantined & were negative earlier were retested for COVID- 5 tested positive & 1 negative; 1 report awaited
– ANI (@ANI) December 12, 2021
According to the Health Department, a 20-year-old Italian youth who was reported to be Omicron positive, his corona report has been found negative. At the same time, out of seven family members who came in contact with him, the report of five people has come positive. The reports of all these had come negative earlier and they were quarantined. At the same time, the report of one of the other two people has come negative, while the report of one is yet to come.
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of health department According to this, the report of the genome sequencing test of a youth who returned from Italy to Chandigarh was received on Saturday and it was found that he was infected with Omicron. Now he is being tested again. If his second report comes negative, then he should be home for 7 days. have to stay in quarantine, But if the report came positive, he was given an institutional extension for 7 days. in quarantine Will have to stay until his report comes negative.
It is noteworthy that so far 38 cases have been found in the country. Out of which maximum 18 cases have been reported in Maharashtra. At the same time, 9 cases have been confirmed in Rajasthan, 3-3 in Gujarat-Karnataka, 2 in the capital Delhi and one each in Andhra Pradesh, Chandigarh and Kerala. The government is emphasizing on contact tracing. Travelers coming from other countries including at-risk countries are being monitored.