Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Dec.11: A 35-year-old man having travel history of Zimbabwe and South Africa tested positive for Omicron, making him the city’s second patient of Omicron. With this, India now has 33 cases of this strain.
According to the Delhi government, the patient’s travel history revealed that the person had also visited South Africa. He has received all of his vaccinations.
He’s been admitted to the LNJP Hospital and is merely suffering from weakness, according to them. He had been to South Africa and returned to India from Zimbabwe.
Patients infected with the new Omicron version of the coronavirus will be treated at the LNJP Hospital.
On Friday, 7 more instances of the Omicron strain were discovered in Maharashtra. Three of the positive patients are from Mumbai, while the other four are from Pimpari Chinchwad. Maharashtra has reported 17 Omicron cases so far.
On Friday, two more instances of Omicron were reported in Gujarat, bringing the total number of cases in the state to three.
So far, 33 cases of the Omicron variant have been discovered in five states, accounting for less than 0.04 percent of all variants discovered, and the patients have reported only minor symptoms.
On November 25, the World Health Organization (WHO) received the first report of a novel COVID-19 strain from South Africa. According to the WHO, the first confirmed B.1.1.529 infection was discovered in a sample obtained on November 9 of this year.