Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 4 (ANI): A 33-year-old man from Maharashtra's Kalyan-Dombivli who recently returned from South Africa has been found positive for the new Omicron variant of COVID-19, informed the State Health Department on Saturday.

This is the first case of the variant in Maharashtra and the fourth in the country.

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The concerned person's sample was taken in Delhi which was genome sequenced at the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune

The person, a resident of Thane, Maharashtra, is currently at a Medical Isolation Facility in Mumbai. The 33-yr-old passenger arrived in Mumbai on November 24 from Capetown, South Africa through Dubai and Delhi.

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He hasn't taken any vaccine. 12 of his high-risk contacts and 23 of the low-risk contacts have been traced and all have been tested negative for COVID-19, said the Maharashtra Health Department.

As per the Department, additionally, 25 of the co-passengers from the Delhi-Mumbai flight have also been tested negative.

More contacts are currently being traced, it added. (ANI)

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