Karnataka: Provide ‘Fake’ Omicron negative RT-PCR Report for Patient, 4 people arrested

The Indian authorities zeroed down two senior executives of a South African pharma company and two other junior employees of a lab and arrested all of them for issuing a “fake” negative COVID-19 certificate to help the first South African Omicron patient to leave India last month.

The omicron patient, who was a South African national, tested positive for COVID-19 and he was kept under quarantine in a star hotel in Vasanthnagar. However, within the next four days of reaching India on November 20, he produced a negative COVID-19 certificate on November 27 and left for South Africa.

The patient returned to the country even as his genome sequencing results were awaited and the result came back on December 2, declaring him positive for Omicron. Following this, the authorities conducted a probe and found out that the report produced by the COVID-19 patient was “fake”.

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The authorities then intensified the probe and zeroed down four people on Sunday for giving the patient a fake certificate. Therefore, the police booked two persons from Adcock Ingram ltd after identifying them as Vice president of quality control Yogeshwar Mohan Persad Dokie and Manager of Quality Control Ravindranath.

Further, they also booked two persons from Syngene Lab identified as Junior Executive Custodian Manoj Kumar and Registration Executive Prashanth of the lab, said the report. The South African is reportedly one of the directors of the company and he has also been booked.

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Delhi’s first patient of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, a 37-year-old man, has been discharged from the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan (LNJP) hospital, officials said on Tuesday. The man, a resident of Ranchi, had travelled from Tanzania to Doha and from there, to Delhi on a Qatar Airways flight on December 2.