AMARAVATI: Two more positive cases of Omicron variant were reported in the State of Andhra Pradesh on Friday while taking the tally to four cases. As per reports, the two new cases were reported from Visakhapatnam and East Godavari districts. A 39-year old woman who recently arrived from Kuwait tested positive for the Omicron variant, East Godavari District Medical and Health
She is tested positive for COVID-19 but asymptomatic, her son tested negative. East Godavari District Medical and Health Officer K.V.S. Gowreeswara Rao on Thursday said that the 47-year-old Anglo-Indian woman, who arrived at the Rajamahendravaram railway station from New Delhi last midnight by AP Express train, did not show any symptoms of new strain of COVID-19 (coronavirus) which was recently found in the U.K.
On December 21, the woman was tested positive for the COVID-19 upon her arrival at the New Delhi airport from the U.K. and later admitted to the Safdarjung hospital.
“The woman was tested positive for COVID-19 at the Safdarjung hospital but asymptomatic. On the midnight of Wednesday, she had arrived the Rajamahendravaram railway station by train and immediately sent to the District Government Hospital in Rajamahendravaram”, said Dr. Gowreeswara Rao.