Maharashtra Omicron Patient ‘Stable’, ‘Responding Well’ To Treatment At Covid Care Centre: Health Official

<p><strong>Thane: </strong>A senior health official on Sunday said the man from Maharashtra&rsquo;s Thane district, who had tested positive for the Covid-19 Omicron variant, is in a &ldquo;stable&rdquo; condition and &ldquo;responding well&rdquo; to treatment.</p> <p>&ldquo;He is stable and responding well to treatment,&rdquo; PTI quoted Mumbai Circle Health Services Deputy Director Dr Gauri Rathod as saying.</p> <p>Dr Rathod said the man will undergo the treatment protocol, as prescribed for the Covid Omicron variant, for 14 days.</p> <p>The 33-year-old marine engineer is currently undergoing treatment at a Covid care centre in Kalyan town, around 50 km from Maharashtra capital Mumbai.</p> <p>Dr Rathod said the patient will continue to be treated at the Covid-19 care centre in Kalyan and will not be shifted elsewhere.</p> <p>The man had arrived in Delhi on November 24 via Cape Town and had given his samples for Covid-19 testing at the Delhi airport. He had then taken a flight to Mumbai, official sources told PTI earlier in Delhi.</p> <p>Meanwhile, Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation&rsquo;s epidemic cell chief Dr Pratibha Panpatil said that six others, who had travelled from different nations to the Kalyan-Dombivli area, have been kept in isolation after they tested Covid positive.</p> <p>Dr Panpatil said the samples of these six people have been sent for genome sequencing, adding the results will be known in the coming days.</p> <p>&ldquo;The condition of all the six is stable. They are asymptomatic and none of them had come from high-risk countries,&rdquo; she said.</p> <p>Of the six people, four had travelled from Nigeria, while one each from Russia and Nepal.</p> <p>Earlier in the day, India reported its fifth case of the Omicron variant from Delhi.</p> <p>The country had detected its first two cases of the Omicron variant from Karnataka earlier this week, while the third and fourth cases were reported from Gujarat&rsquo;s Jamnagar and Mumbai respectively.</p> <p>The Centre has designated 11 countries, including South Africa, Brazil, Zimbabwe, China, Botswana, Zealand, Israel, Mauritius, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and Singapore, as &lsquo;at risk&rsquo; nations.</p>

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