Omicron Alert: DU student tests COVID-19 positive, returned from South Africa

Guwahati: A student from Dibrugarh University has tested positive for COVID-19. The student reportedly recently returned from South Africa.

According to reports, the blood of the COVID positive student has been sent for genome sequencing and it will be done at the Northeast Institute of Science and Technology (NEIST) in Jorhat, Assam.

Keeping in view the surge of Omicron across the country, the student has been kept in isolation at the Jokai Covid Care Centre.

It may be mentioned that the COVID-19 positive student studies at the Pharmaceutical Sciences department.

Meanwhile, in North East, the first case of Omicron was reported in Manipur on Monday and the 48-year person had recently returned from Tanzania.

 

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