A 32-year-old resident of Dombivili in Mumbai, who arrived from South Africa through Delhi on November 24, examined constructive upon arrival within the nationwide Capital, although well being officers are but to determine if he’s contaminated with the Omicron variant of Covid-19.
“He travelled from Cape City to Delhi through Dubai. He examined Covid-19 constructive in Delhi however one way or the other was in a position to board the connecting flight to Mumbai. On arrival in Mumbai, he was discovered to be constructive. He’s asymptomatic and had house quarantined himself. Later, the company quarantined him in an establishment,” mentioned Pratibha Panpatil, Chief Medical Officer of the Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Company (KDMC).
KDMC well being officers mentioned they’ve alerted the airport authorities and efforts are on to find the person’s co-passengers.
Dr Pradeep Vyas, Further Chief Secretary (Well being) mentioned, “Now we have despatched his samples for genome sequencing to search out out if he’s carrying the Omicron varint.”
In response to the Centre’s November 11 pointers for worldwide passengers, samples for RT-PCR exams are to be submitted on touchdown, after which passengers are allowed to go away the airport. Passengers are to observe house quarantine for seven days, with a compulsory retest on the eight day.
Amid rising worries over the Omicron variant, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC) has begun contacting 466 passengers who arrived within the metropolis over the past 15 days from the “international locations of concern”, together with South Africa, and can take swab samples from them for RT-PCR exams. Officers mentioned that 97 of the 466 passengers who arrived in Mumbai are residents of town. The civic physique is individually contacting all passengers for his or her well being updates.
“The passengers who stay in Mumbai don’t have any signs. All are quarantined at house. We’ll run RT-PCR exams on them on Monday,” mentioned BMC Further Commissioner Suresh Kakani.
The Indian Specific has learnt that the state authorities is prone to make seven-day institutional quarantine necessary for passengers flying into town from — or transiting by — international locations of concern. For home passengers, the federal government is prone to convey again the rule on mandatorily carrying a damaging RT-PCR take a look at for coming into the state, sources mentioned.
These measures have been mentioned at a Covid-19 evaluate assembly that Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray held with Well being Minister Rajesh Tope, senior authorities officers, state Covid process power members, divisional commissioners and district collectors.
