The first patient of Omicron COVID-19 variant in Pune city, a 47-year-old software engineer, was discharged from institutional quarantine on Friday following a negative RT-PCR test. He said, "I completed 14 days of quarantine since testing positive for...Omicron variant...it's a relief to be back home...I have been asymptomatic and I'm feeling fine." He tested positive on his return from Finland.