Two Omicron cases in Dharwad district
The Hindu
Patients in home isolation and under observation
Amid apprehensions about a possible third wave of COVID-19, Dharwad district has recorded two new cases of the new Omicron variant with a 53-year-old woman and 14-year-old girl testing positive.
Speaking to presspersons after inspecting a drive to inoculate students in the 15-18 age group at JSS PU College in Dharwad on Monday, Deputy Commissioner Nitesh Patil said that both the patients have already been given the requisite treatment and they are under observation in home isolation.
Both the patients are residents of Hubballi and 395 people who came in contact with them have been tested for the infection. “However, all have tested negative for the pandemic. But now that the two have tested positive for Omicron, steps have been taken to get all their primary and secondary contacts tested. Till both the woman and the girl tested negative for the infection, they will be under home isolation and under observation by the health staff,” he said.
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