Vadodara: Increasing fears of local transmission of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, a woman from Vadodara city with no history of foreign travel or contact with an infected patient was found infected with the new variant. This is the second such case that has come to light in as many days.
According to details divulged by the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC), the 45-year-old woman was found Covid-19 positive on December 18 following an RT-PCR test. The woman from Gokulnagar had got herself tested as she was having throat pain.
The woman’s sample was also sent for genome sequencing on the day she tested positive. The result revealed that she had been infected with the Omicron variant.
She had not travelled abroad and had also not come in contact with anyone infected by the Omicron variant. She had, however, travelled to Ahmedabad from December 13 to December 16. No specific source of infection has been found in the case.
The woman is stable and under home isolation. Her 14 close contacts were tested and found negative for Covid-19. Samples of nine primary contacts were collected again on Friday.
In all, 20 Omicron cases have been reported in the city. These include two with no history of travel abroad or contact with an Omicron infected person.
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