Spain-returned woman still in hospital, genome report awaited

Nagpur: The genome sequencing report of a 47-year-old woman who returned from Spain is awaited as she continues to remain admitted in the special ward of AIIMS Nagpur.
In the meantime, the UK-returned 40-year-old woman and her daughter (9) were discharged from the hospital after testing negative. The mother-daughter duo left for Mumbai and flew back to London on Saturday. The duo’s genome sequencing report was negative, officials said.
The UK-returned woman’s husband too had tested positive in Mumbai from where they returned.
The Spain-returned woman, a resident of Telecom Nagar in Khamla, said she didn’t have any symptoms till date and was surprised to have tested positive only at Nagpur. “I tested negative on December 5 and took a Madrid-Frankfurt-Delhi flight. I landed in Delhi on December 7 and tested negative in rapid RT-PCR. They allowed me to travel to Nagpur,” she said.
Civic officials visited her home and asked to take another RT-PCR test on December 11 while she was following seven-day home quarantine as per norms. “On December 13, I was a bit shocked to know that the report was positive. They asked me to move to MLA hostel or AIIMS Nagpur,” she said.
The woman, who is fully vaccinated, had been part of a sporting event in Spain. She was among over 150 other sportsperson from the country who returned to India on December 7. “All of them have tested negative in their respective cities. None in our WhatsApp group has so far informed about testing positive,” she said.
AIIMS officials said she is asymptomatic but still needs to be hospitalized till her genome sequencing report is received. In case this report is negative for Omicron variant, she will be tested on the 10th day of infection. Her RT-PCR report of December 22 needs to be negative to qualify for discharge as per the norms for international flyers.
Arvind Patre (45), a resident of Dighori, is the only official Omicron confirmed patient of the city .
Meanwhile, Buldhana’s 67-year-old Omicron positive patient is asymptomatic. “He is under isolation and all his close contacts have been tested and quarantined,” district officials said.