After first two cases of covid variant Omicron reported at Bengaluru on Friday, two more cases reported from Jamnagar of Gujrat and Mumbai in Maharashtra on Saturday.

A 33-year-old man from Maharashtra who travelled to Mumbai from South Africa via Dubai and Delhi last month has tested positive for the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, in the fourth such case confirmed in India.

24th November, the passenger reported mild fever after landing in Mumbai. He had not taken any COVID-19 vaccine. However, no other symptoms were observed. The patient is being treated at the Covid Care Centre in Kalyan-Dombivali.

12 of the passenger’s high-risk contacts and 23 low-risk contacts have been traced and all have tested negative for COVID-19. Additionally, 25 of his co-passengers from the Delhi-Mumbai flight have also tested negative.

On Saturday morning, a man who returned from Zimbabwe was found infected with the Omicron variant of coronavirus in Gujarat’s Jamnagar, the state health department said, in the third case of the strain in India.

Tho other cases of India are of a fully vaccinated 46-year-old doctor from Bengaluru, who had no travel history and developed symptoms of fever and body ache, and a 66-year-old South African national who came to India with a negative COVID-19 report.

The World Health Organisation has said it could take weeks to determine whether Omicron is more transmissible and whether it causes more severe infections – as well as how effective current treatments and vaccines are against it.

The Health Ministry on Friday said it expects the Omicron variant to cause less severe disease, thanks to vaccinations and high prior exposure to the Delta variant that infected nearly 70 per cent of the population by July.