New Delhi: A one-and-a-half-year-old girl from Pimpri Chinchwad area of Pune district in Maharashtra, who recently tested positive for Covid-19 with the Omicron variant, was discharged from the hospital after recovering, reported PTI. Health officials said a three-year-old boy who was also infected with the Omicron version of Covid-19 was asymptomatic and was healthy.
A three-year-old boy was also among the four new patients reported by the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation of the area. The other three patients are all adults, including two men and a woman, who were in contact with an Indian-origin woman and her two daughters, who were found positive with the new strain of coronavirus on arrival from Nigeria.
The woman had come to Pimpri Chinchwad to meet her brother. In addition to the Nigerian mother and her two daughters, the woman’s brother and her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, including her two daughters, were found to be infected with Omicron’s coronavirus, officials said.
“Out of the six Omicron patients detected earlier, four patients, including a one-and-a-half-year-old child, have been discharged from the hospital after testing negative during their repeat test,” an official said.
“Except one woman with dry cough, all patients including child are asymptomatic and are fine. The woman with dry cough also tested negative in the repeat test and was discharged along with three others. The other two women tested positive in the repeat test. And so he’s in the hospital at the moment, but he’s also fine.”
PCMC doctor Laxman Gophane said that a three-year-old boy who was found COVID positive with the Omicron variant along with three new patients was kept well in pediatric care. He further said that the other three patients were also asymptomatic and there was no cause for concern.
Meanwhile, Pune’s lone Omicron positive patient was discharged on Friday after testing negative, officials said. The person had returned from Finland to Pune.
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