ibune News Service
Faridabad, December 11
As many as 134 travellers returning from 13 high-risk countries remain untraced in the district.
A senior official of the Health Department said 531 foreign travellers had arrived in the district since November 29, of which 134 were not in the contact of the department for the monitoring of their health under the given protocol, as address and contact numbers provided by them were wrong.
He said the persons arriving from abroad needed to remain in direct contact with the Health Department as per the rules to curb the highly infectious nature of the Omicron variant.
The list of the high-risk countries include the UK, South Africa, Brazil, Botswana, China, Ghana, Mauritius, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Hong Kong and Israel. Singapore has been removed from the list recently.
Civil Surgeon Dr Vinay Gupta said while around 171 travellers had been tested and the department had asked the police to trace 134 persons whose contact details or address had been found wrong. He added that none of those tested so far had been found positive for the variant.
Meanwhile, with three fresh cases surfacing, the number of active cases in the district reached 42 on Saturday. Two patients have been discharged after recovery, while one is being treated in a hospital and the rest are in home isolation.
According to officials, with the recovery rate of 99.28 percent, case mortality rate is 0.71 per cent.
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