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Chennai, Dec 3 (PTI) Three international air travellers, including a child, who had arrived in Tamil Nadu from Singapore and the United Kingdom have tested positive for Covid-19 and the government ruled out social media reports claiming they were cases of Omicron but said tests only would conclude if they are infected with the latest variant of the coronavirus.
Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ma Subramanian said on Friday that a man who arrived at Tiruchirappalli from Singapore in the wee hours and the child who had come along with its family here from the UK have tested positive for Covid and regretted that there were claims in social media that both were infected with the Omicron variant.
"The passenger from Singapore arrived at Tiruchirappalli at 3.30 AM (on Friday).
He tested positive and has been shifted to the local medical college where he has been quarantined.
His sample will undergo genome sequencing and we have a facility here for this purpose.
However, it will also be sent to a lab in Bengaluru and only after that result would we come to know if he is infected with Omicron," he said.