German tests Covid +ve in MP

Jabalpur: Amid the concern over Omicron COVID-19 variant, a 28-year-old German national has tested positive for coronavirus at Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh and his sample has been sent for genome sequencing, an official said on Tuesday.Since the man attended a marriage ceremony here on Sunday evening, his contact history was traced and samples of at least 50 people were collected for testing, district contact officer Dr D Mohanty said.

So far, there has been no case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in MP. After the German national arrived here on Sunday from New Delhi, he was found negative for the coronavirus in the Rapid Antigen Test at the airport. Later, his RT-PCR test report came out positive on Monday, Mohanty said.

The man was subsequently kept in isolation at a COVID- 19 care centre of a local government medical college, he said. His sample has been sent for genome sequencing to ascertain whether he is infected with the new ‘Omicron’ variant or not, the official said.

Cases of the Omicron variant have been reported in neighbouring states. -(PTI)