4 More Passengers From London, South Africa Test Covid +ve In Mumbai
NDTV
All the patients are asymptomatic and have been institutionally quarantined. Their samples will be sent for genome sequencing.
Four more international passengers who arrived in Mumbai from 'at risk' countries - where the new Covid variant, Omicron, has been detected - have tested positive for coronavirus. This takes the total number of such positive patients to 10.
All the patients are asymptomatic and have been institutionally quarantined. Their samples will be sent for genome sequencing.
Three of these cases were not detected at the airport as the passengers arrived before the compulsory testing norms came into force.
However, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, or the BMC, was conducting a contact tracing exercise of all passengers who arrived over last 15 days and found three positive cases.