Spike in Raj as 40 test +ve; Omicron cases at 9

Spike in Raj as 40 test +ve; Omicron cases at 9

Intishab.Ali@timesgroup.com

Jaipur:  09.12.2021

In a clear spike in Covid-19 cases, Rajasthan on Wednesday reported 40 coronavirus positive patients, 25 of whom are from Jaipur only. The state so far has nine confirmed cases of Omicron, all in the city. Eight relatives of a person from the city’s Vaishali Nagar, who had arrived from Germany on November 27 and tested positive two days ago, were found infected on Wednesday.

Besides, three more people from a family of 14 living in the city’s Adarsh Nagar locality were found positive on Wednesday. This family has already reported five confirmed cases of Omicron. Four relatives of the Adarsh Nagar family, who had arrived in the city from South Africa on November 25, had first tested positive for Omicron. Among these 11 new cases, five are children below 18 years — three from the Vaishali Nagar family and two from the Adarsh Nagar family. Suspecting the 11 cases reported from Vaishali Nagar and Adarsh Nagar to be Omicron infection, the health department has decided to send their samples for genome sequencing and isolate them at the dedicated Covid-19 RUHS Hospital.“All those who come in contact with Omicron-positive cases and test positive for Covid-19 are termed ‘suspected cases of Omicron’. Also, those who are coming in from ‘at risk’ countries and testing positive, and their contacts who test positive, too are suspected cases of the new variant,” said Dr Ajit Singh, superintendent, RUHS Hospital.

4 foreign returnees test +ve in Odisha

Four foreign returnees from “at-risk” countries have tested positive for coronavirus, Odisha health authorities confirmed on Wednesday, reports Riyan Ramanath. The samples of those infected have been sent to Insascog laboratory at the Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) to ascertain whether they are carrying the Omicron variant of the virus. “They have mild symptoms,” Niranjan Mishra, director of public health, said.