Four more, including close contact, test positive for Omicron in Hyderabad

Four persons, including three international travelers, who arrived at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), Shamshabad recently from non at-risk countries, and one close contact, have tested positive for the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, health officials said here on Tuesday.

With this, the total number of Omicron variant Covid-19 positive infections in Telangana has reached 24. Of these, 19 cases were international travelers who arrived at RGIA, Hyderabad from non at-risk countries, 4 travelers were from at-risk countries and one was a close contact of a



passenger who had tested positive for Omicron.

On Tuesday, a total of 726 international travelers arrived at RGIA, out of which 4 tested positive for Covid-19. The blood samples of the four Covid positive travelers have been sent for full genome sequencing. At present, genome sequencing results of a total of 13 samples are awaited.

Since the start of the screening of the international travelers at RGIA, a total of 9122 passengers underwent RT-PCR tests out of which 59 have tested Covid positive and 24 have tested positive for Omicron variant..