Agencies
New Delhi, December 05:
Til Saturday evening, there were 13 international travellers, suspected to be infected with Omicron, were admitted to a separate isolation ward at Lok Nayak hospital. Among them, the Tanzania returnee was the only person from Africa and the others are from Europe and the US, officials confirmed.
LNJP hospital has been designated for the treatment of the Omicron variant, though this is the first case in the Capital. The patient has a sore throat, weakness and body ache, the common symptoms reported so far in the Omicron cases.
This is the fifth case of Omicron reported in the country. The first two cases of Omicron were reported in Karnataka. On Saturday, the third and the fourth case of the infection were reported from Gujarat’s Jamnagar and Maharashtra’s Dombivli respectively.
Earlier, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stop international flights in the view of Omicron variant.
A new variant of COVID-19 was first reported to the World Health Organisation (WHO) from South Africa on November 25. As per the WHO, the first known confirmed B.1.1.529 infection was from a specimen collected on November 9 this year.
India has also added several countries to the list from where travellers would need to follow additional measures on arrival in the country, including post-arrival testing for infection.
