New Delhi: A contact of an Omicron case in Rajasthan has been found COVID-19 positive in Delhi and she has been admitted to the Lok Nayak Hospital, officials said on Friday. The woman tested Covid positive on Thursday, is asymptomatic and stable. She did not travel to any foreign country, officials said.
According to an official, 17 members of her family have also been put under home quarantine. She was taken to the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital and her sample has been sent for genomic sequencing to the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the official said, adding her contacts are being traced.
The LNJP has been designated for treatment of patients infected with the Omicron variant of coronavirus. Currently, it has 30 patients suspected to be infected with the new variant. Eight patients have been discharged till now after testing negative. Delhi had reported its first case of Omicron on Sunday — a 37-year-old fully vaccinated man who arrived in Delhi from Tanzania.
The man, a resident of Ranchi, had travelled from Tanzania to Doha and from there to Delhi on a Qatar Airways flight on December 2. He stayed in Johannesburg, South Africa, for a week. The person has mild symptoms.
Meanwhile, the Capital on Friday reported 41 new Covid-19 cases with zero deaths from the virus even as the daily positivity rate climbed down to 0.07 per cent. Active cases in the city now stand at 370 and the death toll is at 25,100.