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Nashik: A 49-year-old man from Mali, a west African country, has tested positive for Covid-19, said NMC health department officials

The civic body has sent his samples for genome sequencing to the Pune-based NIV lab to check if it is a case of Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus. NMC officials said that a three-member team from Mali had reached Nashik city on Sunday for official work and was put up in a hotel. The NMC team had collected swab samples of the trio on Monday and one of them tested positive.