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New Delhi, Dec 7 (PTI) Four more international travellers were on Tuesday admitted to the Delhi government-run Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan hospital"s special facility for isolating and treating those infected with the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus, officials said."There are a total of 30 people -- 25 positive cases and five suspected cases -- at the facility at present.
All the four passengers who arrived on Tuesday are Indians," Medical Director of the hospital Suresh Kumar said.Delhi reported its first case of Omicron on Sunday -- a 37-year-old fully-vaccinated man who arrived in the city from Tanzania.The man, a resident of Ranchi, travelled from Tanzania to Doha and from there, to Delhi on a Qatar Airways flight on December 2.
He stayed in Johannesburg in South Africa for a week.
He has mild symptoms.The results of 12 of the 17 samples sent for genome sequencing were released on Sunday, with 11 of those being negative for Omicron. PTI GVS RC.