Balangir: Odisha has reported its first and the country’s second death linked to the Covid-19 Omicron variant.
Balangir Chief District Medical Officer (CDMO) Dr Snehalata Sahu confirmed the same earlier on Thursday.
The woman was admitted to the Burla Medical College following a brain stroke where she tested Covid-19 positive.
The sample of the 50-year-old woman was sent for genome sequencing. The report of the test, which came after her death, was Omicron positive.
She breathed her last earlier on December 27 last year.
Dr Sahu also informed that after the detection of Omicron death, the district administration and the health department officials rushed to her native village Agalpur for contact tracing, ANI reported.
Further testing of the contacts is in progress.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Union Health Ministry said that an elderly man died in Rajasthan with the Omicron variant.
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The 73-year-old man, who was found infected with Omicron in genome sequencing died in a Udaipur hospital earlier on December 31, 2021.
The elderly was found infected with the Omicron variant of the virus after the results of the sample sent for genome sequencing were received on December 25, 2021.
The man, who had twice tested negative for Covid-19 twice on December 21 and 25 last year, was admitted to the hospital earlier on December 15, 2021.
The man, who had symptoms like fever, cough and rhinitis, was found Covid-19 positive on December 15 last year.
Udaipur Chief Medical Health Officer (CMHO) Dr Dinesh Kharadi had earlier said that the man died due to post-Covid pneumonia coupled with comorbidities -- diabetes mellitus, hypertension and hypothyroidism.