Multi-vitamins and paracetamol tablets were the only treatment provided to Omicron patients at Delhi's Lok Nayak hospital so far, doctors said on 24 December.

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A Delhi hospital has reported 40 cases of the latest coronavirus variant of concern till now. 19 of these patients have already been discharged. A senior doctor at the hospital said around 90 per cent of the patients are "asymptotic" and the rest showed mild symptoms like "sore throat, low-grade fever and body ache".

"The treatment included only multi-vitamins and paracetamol tablets. We didn't feel the need to give them any other medicine," he said. The doctor said most of the patients are those who tested COVID-19 positive at the airport upon arrival from foreign countries. Barring one, all are fully vaccinated and around two-thirds of them have taken the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Three have even taken booster shots of the Pfizer vaccine, he added.

The patients included an MP of an African country, a member of a royal family from a north Indian state, and family members of bureaucrats, a source said.  Genome sequencing of samples of all COVID-19-infected people in Delhi is being conducted since December 22 to ascertain if the new Omicron variant has spread in the community.