The Karnataka government on Friday ordered an inquiry into the Covid-19 test report of a South African, who is one of the two people testin...
The Karnataka government on Friday ordered an inquiry into the Covid-19 test report of a South African, who is one of the two people testing positive for the Omicron variant of the coronavirus disease in India, reported PTI.
The 66-year-old South African man had arrived in Bengaluru on November 20 and tested positive on the same day at a hotel where he had checked in. However, when the man took a Covid-19 test at a private lab in Bengaluru, his results came negative when he took another test three days later. After that, he left for Dubai on November 27. His samples were sent for genome sequencing on November 22.
Besides him, a 46-year-old man has tested positive for the Omicron variant. This man did not have any travel history.
The investigation into the South African resident’s test report has been ordered to ascertain how he got a negative report three days after testing positive as well as about him reportedly attending a meeting and leaving the country when his genome sequencing results were awaited.
“Whether there was any mishandling, whether the lab tests were accurate or was there any wrong doing, the police commissioner has been directed to investigate this,” Revenue Minister R Ashoka said.
Ashoka added that the...
