Africa’s Zambian man tests positive in Pune, genome sequencing report awaited
Highlight
- The man had returned to Mumbai from Zambia on November 20.
- The Pune Municipal Corporation has conducted RT-PCR test of his family members.
- The person who tested positive is around 60 years old and is stable.
As COVID concerns are rising with the new Omron version, a person who returned from Zambia to Pune on November 25 has tested positive for COVID19. He had returned from Zambia to Mumbai on November 20 and then traveled to Pune by taxi.
The Pune Municipal Corporation has conducted RT-PCR test of his family members and the driver who traveled from Mumbai to Pune with them and all of them have tested negative. The person who tested positive is around 60 years old and is stable, asymptomatic and in home isolation for now.
His sample has been sent for genome sequencing and the report on the same is awaited.
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