A 66-year-old man who is one of India's two Omicron carriers landed in the country on November 20 and then left for Dubai by air seven days later, ndtv.com quoted official sources on Thursday.

As per the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the man arrived at the Bengaluru International Airport from South Africa with a Covid negative report on November 20 having been vaccinated with both the vaccine doses.

Upon his arrival, he checked into a hotel the same day and was found to be positive for COVID-19, ndtv.com adds.

A government doctor who examined him, found him to be asymptomatic and advised him to self-isolate.

Since he was travelling from a designated "at-risk nation, given the Omicron breakout, his samples were collected again and sent for genome sequencing on November 22.” All the 24 people who was in contact with him tested negative. “The authorities also tested 240 secondary contacts - people who had come in contact with the primary contacts of the patent - and found them to be negative as well,” ndtv.com states.

The man took another test on November 23, the result of which was negative. It was on November 27 that he left his hotel, took a cab for the airport and and then flew to Dubai.