<span style="color: #222222;">Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has adopted extremely vigilant approach and issued home quarantine guidelines for foreign passengers arriving in Mumbai in the backdrop of the prevailing risk of spread of Omicron variant. The civic body is leaving no stone unturned to monitor the foreign returnees and have made elaborate arrangements to prevent the possible spread of the Omicron variant.<br />''<br />''AIR correspondent reports,BMC has said that as per Omicron guidelines, CEO of Mumbai International Airport Limited will send a single line list of international travellers arriving in Mumbai in the preceding 24 hrs, to the Disaster Management Unit of BMC.  <br />''<br />''This unit will further forward it ward-wise to Ward War Rooms & Medical Officer of Health. BMC Mayor Kishori Pednekar has said that the BMC is alert about people returning from 'at risk' countries and it has prepared an action plan for it. She said that 10 ambulances will be kept on stand by in each ward for foreign travellers.<br />''<br />''She informed that the samples of 288 foreign returnees were sent for genome sequencing and they are expecting the results of the samples sent for genome sequencing.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, Mumbai's civic body has said that 's-gene' tests of seven COVID-19 infected international passengers have returned negative, suggesting the absence of Omicron variant. Results of two others, who were also found to be COVID positive are still awaited. </span><br />