On Friday from Udaipur a 73-year-old man, who was tested positive for Omicron on 15th December, has died. It is 2nd omicron death in India. According to reports, the deceased was also suffering from hypertension and diabetes. He had tested negative for COVID-19 on 21st December. After four days, on 25th December, the man was diagnosed with Omicron. The hospital authorities have suspected that he might have died due to the effect of post-COVID pneumonia.
The Chief Medical and Health Officer Udaipur Division Dr Dinesh Kharadi said, “The man was tested positive for COVID-19’s Omicron strain but later he was tested negative two times, so this will not be called a COVID death but a post-COVID death.”
Rajasthan has reported 69 cases of Omicron so far of which 47 have recovered. According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), the country has reported 1,270 cases of Omicron of which 374 have recovered. Earlier in the day, India reported its first Omicron death. A 52-year-old man in Maharashtra, who had recently arrived from Nigeria had tested positive for the new variant of COVID-19, died of a cardiac arrest. The man was admitted in the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation’s Yashwantrao Chavan hospital of Maharashtra.