Telangana: 4 More Omicron Cases — 3 Patients from Kenya And 1 Indian — Take Tally Up To 7
Four more cases of Omicron were reported in Hyderabad on Thursday when Telangana recorded a total of 190 new Covid-19 positive cases.
Hyderabad: The number of Omicron cases is increasing in Telangana. Four more cases of the newest SARS-CoV-2 variant, were reported in Hyderabad on Thursday, taking the total number of Omicron patients in the state to seven.
Three of the four persons who tested positive for Omicron are from Kenya, while the fourth is an Indian who has just returned from an 'at-risk' country.
Dr G Srinivasa Rao, Director of Public Health, said Thursday further details about the four "imported Omicron positive cases" would be shared on Friday as investigation was on.
Four more persons test positive for #Omicron in Hyderabad, taking total number of the variant cases to 7 in Telangana, as per the health department
— ANI (@ANI) December 16, 2021
Earlier, a 23-year-old woman from Kenya and a 24-year-old Somalian man had tested positive for Covid-19 at the Hyderabad International Airport and were shifted to Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences (TIMS), the government designated isolation facility for Omicron cases.
After arriving on December 12, they were allowed to go home because they were not from an 'at-risk' country, but their samples were sent for genetic sequencing. The results that came on Wednesday confirmed them to be infected with Omicron.
As many as 40,103 samples were tested in Telangana. Of these, 190 new Covid-19 positive cases were reported on Thursday.
In Telangana, there have been 6,79,064 cases of Covid-19 and 4,012 deaths to date. On Thursday, another 195 people were declared recovered, bringing the total number of such patients to 6,71,247 at a rate of 98.8%.
(With inputs from ABP Desam — It is a Telugu platform of ABP News. For more news, commentary and latest happenings from two Telugu states, follow https://telugu.abplive.com/)
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