According to the state health department, a man who recently returned from Zimbabwe was infected with the Omicron coronavirus variant in Gujarat’s Jamnagar. In India, this is the third Omicron outbreak in the country’s history.
According to the state health department, Gujarat Health Commissioner Jai Prakash Shivhare confirmed that the 72-year-old Jamnagar resident had an Omicron infection after his sample tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday.
Gujarat authorities have established a “micro-containment zone” around the Omicron-infected man and have begun tracing and testing local residents.
Isolation has been implemented, and we are keeping a close eye on him. He is currently housed in a small containment area. Gujarat’s Additional Chief Secretary for Health and Family Welfare, Manoj Aggarwal, told the news agency ANI, “we will conduct tracing and testing of people in the area.”
Aside from the Bengaluru doctor, a 46-year-old fully vaccinated Bengali doctor who arrived in India with a negative COVID-19 report also developed fever and body aches.
Since the Omicron variant was discovered in South Africa, international passengers from high-risk countries have been subjected to additional screening and monitoring.
It could take weeks to determine whether Omicron is more transmissible and causes more severe infections, as well as how effective current treatments and vaccines are against it.
The new variant, on the other hand, has already called global recovery into question. More than a dozen countries, including India, have confirmed the variant.
The Delta strain had infected nearly 70% of the population by July. According to the health ministry’s announcement on Friday, the Omicron strain is expected to cause less severe disease.
Almost half of India’s adult population of 944 million has been immunized. As the government pushes for more people to be immunized in the face of Omicron, 84 percent have received at least one dose, with more than 125 million people eligible.
The disease is expected to be mild due to India’s rapid vaccination rate and high exposure to the Delta variant.
According to the Health Ministry, “scientific evidence is still evolving.”
