Ahmedabad: Two people who had contracted the strain of the coronavirus causing a surge in COVID-19 cases in China had been detected in Gujarat over two months ago and recovered at home, without needing hospitalisation, officials told NDTV on Wednesday.”The patients were infected with BF 7 and BF 12 form of Omicron variant were reported in October-Nov 2022. These two patients were treated in home isolation. They have fully recovered now,” a health department official told NDTV, requesting not to be named.One of the patients, a 61-year-old woman in Vadodara, had arrived from the US on September 11, and tested positive for COVID-19 on September 18, the official said, adding she had taken three doses of the Pfizer vaccination and was in home isolation”Her sample had been sent for genome sequencing to Gandhinagar and the genome-sequencing result for the BF.7 variant arrived today. The patient is in good health and as per the guidelines, three of her close contacts were tested during the time she was COVID-19 positive. The close contacts had tested negative for COVID-19,” the official said.
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