Odisha reports 1st Omicron case, 2 foreign returnees detected with super mutant variant
One person is asymptomatic while another is having very mild symptoms.;
Bhubaneswar: For the first time, two Omicron cases have been detected in Odisha.
Both are foreign returnees and their health condition is stable, an official said here on Tuesday.
"After genome sequencing, we found two Omicron positive cases. While one person returned from Nigeria, another returned from Qatar," said State director, public health, Niranjan Mishra.
Both the two Omicron positive persons have returned from "non-at-risk" countries and from the very beginning they are under isolation, he said, adding, "both are stable now. One person is asymptomatic while another is having very mild symptoms."
Contract tracing of both the persons have been done. As many 21 persons, who had come in contact with the positive persons, have been traced out and RTPCR testing is being done, Mishra said.
He said genome sequencing will be conducted for all those who found positive in RTPCR test.
"Since November 21, we are putting all foreign returnees, including those who returned from 'non-at-risk' countries under surveillance. So far, around 8,800 people from foreign countries have returned to Odisha, of which around 1,600 are from 'at-risk' countries," Mishra said.
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