A 32-year-old resident of Mumbai’s Dombivli town, who arrived from South Africa last week, tested positive for Covid-19 on arrival at the ...
A 32-year-old resident of Mumbai’s Dombivli town, who arrived from South Africa last week, tested positive for Covid-19 on arrival at the Mumbai airport, The Times of India reported on Monday.
It is not presently clear if he has been infected with the new Omicron variant of coronavirus. His blood sample has been sent for genome sequencing.
The passenger had travelled from Cape Town to Delhi via Dubai on November 24. He gave a sample for coronavirus testing in Delhi, following which he was allowed to board a connecting flight to Mumbai, Pratibha Panpatil, chief medical officer of the Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation told The Indian Express.
“He is asymptomatic and had home quarantined himself,” Panpatil said. “Later, the corporation quarantined him in an institution.”
The Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation officials said that they have alerted airport authorities and that efforts were underway to locate the 32-year-old Dombivli resident’s co-passengers.
Between November 12 and November 26, the Mumbai airport registered 446 arrivals from “countries of concern” of which, 97 were residents of the city, according to The Indian Express. Currently, travellers coming to India from the United Kingdom, South Africa, Brazil, Bangladesh, Botswana, China, Mauritius, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Singapore, Hong Kong and Israel have been deemed “at risk” of being infected with the new strain.
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