Omicron suspects in Mumbai rise to 5 as 3 flyers, 1 contact positive | Mumbai News – Times of India

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MUMBAI/PUNE: Three international travellers returning from Mauritius and London tested positive for Covid-19 in the city on Wednesday.
A contact of another returnee from South Africa isolated on Tuesday was also found to be positive. The four new detections have taken the number of Omicron variant suspects in the city to five, said civic officials.
All are asymptomatic. “None of them have any severe symptoms. But we are admitting them to Seven Hills Hospital as a precaution,” said Suresh Kakani, additional municipal commissioner. The sample of the 39-year-old South Africa returnee, who was the first to test positive on Tuesday, has been loaded for genome sequencing. Kakani said his reports are expected by Sunday or Monday. The samples of the remaining have been sent to Kasturba Hospital but are likely to be sequenced in the next batch, he added.
Among the other positives is a 21-year-old man who arrived from London on November 10. Another London returnee is a 25-year-old man. The third positive individual is a 47-year-old man who arrived from Mauritius on November 25. The BMC has been screening passengers who returned from “at-risk” countries between November 12 and 26. They include the European countries, South Africa, Brazil, Bangladesh, Botswana, China, Mauritius, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Singapore, Hong Kong and Israel.
About the contact of the international flyer, Dr Mangala Gomare, BMC’s executive health officer, said she is a 37-year-old. “She is asymptomatic too, but we are hospitalising her,” she said.
The state didn’t update if there were more positive travellers. Of the previous six cases, state surveillance officer Pradip Awate said none had any symptoms. “People need to understand they are only positive for Covid-19 and not for Omicron yet,” he said.
Travellers residing in Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) are recovering at home, officials said. Their swab samples were sent to the National Institute of Virology for genomic sequencing on Wednesday. Two travellers from Pimpri-Chinchwad had returned from Nigeria and a PMC resident from Zambia.
Meanwhile, Thane Municipal Corporation tracked seven passengers who returned from South Africa recently. Additional municipal commissioner-1 Sandeep Malvi said all seven tested negative.
Dilip Dhole, commissioner of Mira Bhayander Municipal Corporation, said they didn’t have any positive cases among international returnees as stated by the public health department. He said they tested nine who had returned from “at-risk” nations on November 28 and all their reports came negative.
In Kalyan-Dombivli, all six members of a family who recently returned from Nigeria tested negative.
(With Pradeep Gupta, Sandhya Nair & Manoj Badgeri)

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