NAGPUR: A 47-year-old fully vaccinated woman tested positive for COVID in the city on Sunday, days after she returned from at-risk country Spain.
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) on Monday shifted the Khamla resident to the special ward of AIIMS meant for Omicron suspects.
She is the fourth foreign-returned Covid positive flyer to be admitted to the special ward.
A 40-year-old unrelated man from West Africa tested positive for Omicron in genome sequencing on Monday.
Civic officials said the sample of the woman who returned from Spain will be sent to NIV Pune for genome study through IGGMCH on Tuesday.
A woman returned from Britain and her 9-year-old daughter are also admitted in AIIMS. The male and mother-daughter pair will be discharged if RTPCR comes negative on Tuesday.
The Khamla resident had returned to Nagpur via Delhi, where she was asked to take the RTPCR test, which came negative on December 7.
The zonal medical team of NMC had asked him to go to home quarantine for seven days as per the rules. The team met him on the 3rd day of his return and took his swab for another RTPCR test on the 5th day. “She was found COVID positive on December 12,” said civic officials.
He said swab samples of 30 close contacts of the woman have been collected and results are expected by Tuesday.
Officials of the NMC Laxmi Nagar area, under whose jurisdiction the woman resides, said they are also tracking several Sharjah commuters. “None of them have tested positive so far. Sample collection is going on on the seventh day,” he said.
She said that she had gone to Spain for a sporting event on November 25 and came in contact with some players who tested positive there.
AIIMS officials said that he does not have any pre-existing COVID infection and is asymptomatic.
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