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Bengaluru doctor with Omicron variant continues to test positive

Five people who tested positive after coming in contact with him have tested negative

PTI12_06_2021_000198A (Representational) Health workers inside an isolation ward for COVID-19 to treat persons infected with the Omicron variant at a government hospital in Chennai | PTI

A doctor from Bengaluru who was one of the first in the country to test positive for the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has tested positive again.

The 46-year-old doctor had taken an RT-PCR test seven days after his last test and the recent result shows that he is still positive. He will remain under observation for another seven days and will be discharged from the isolation wing of Bowring hospital only after he gets a negative RT-PCR report.

The five people who tested positive after coming in contact with the doctor have tested negative now and will be discharged today.

The doctor and another traveller from South Africa to Bengaluru were the first two confirmed cases of the Omicron variant in India. The doctor had no travel history.

Though he tested positive for COVID-19 on November 22, it was found on December 2 that he was infected with the Omicron variant, following genomic sequencing of his samples.

Despite his last two tests returning positive, the doctor has told the media that he is fit and there are no symptoms anymore.

The state government has since traced over 200 people who came in contact with the two people, and all of them were tested. 

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