The number of Omicron infections rose to 10 in Maharashtra on Monday, as two more persons -- a 37-year old man and his 36-year-old friend who landed in Mumbai from Johannesburg and the United States respectively on November 25 – tested positive for the new Covid-19 variant.
“Both patients have not shown symptoms and are admitted to the BMC’s Seven Hills Hospital in Andheri east. The two patients have taken doses of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine,” senior State health official said.
In a related development, five five high-risk and 315 low-risk contacts of the both the men have also been traced. The tracking of more contacts of the two men is underway.
The Two fresh Omicron were detected a day after seven more cases of Omicron were detected in Maharashtra. Six members of a family that returned from Lagos, Nigeria on November 24 and a man from Pune tested positive for the new Covid-19 variant.
The first case of “Omicron” was detected in the twin township of Kalyan-Dombivli in Thane district where a 33-year-old man - who had arrived from South Africa to Mumbai via Dubai and New Delhi - tested positive for the Covid-19 variant on Saturday.
Giving details of the Omicron situation in Pune, a Health department official said: “A patient was found positive for Omicron variant in Pune through routine surveillance. He visited Finland from 18 to November 25 2021. He was tested after he experienced mild fever on November 29 and was found Covid positive.