: Omicron has arrived in peak wedding season. Should Indians be worried? #IndiaNEWS The Omicron variant of coronavirus has arrived in India while the country is in the throes of an intense wedding season.

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Omicron has arrived in peak wedding season. Should Indians be worried? #IndiaNEWS
The Omicron variant of coronavirus has arrived in India while the country is in the throes of an intense wedding season. With restrictions on gatherings being lifted recently after more than a year of Covid-19 precautions, as many as 25 lakh weddings are taking place between November and December, according to the Confederation of All India Traders.The first Omicron cluster in the country has, in fact, been reported from a wedding in Jaipur. Nine people, all guests at a wedding held in Jaipur on November 28, were confirmed to be Omicron-infected in Jaipur on December 5. Among them is a family of four that had travelled from South Africa to attend the wedding.South Africa was the first country to detect the new variant. It was found in a sample collected in Gauteng province on November 8. In the three weeks since then, Gauteng has seen a rapid increase in Covid-19 cases, leading scientists to conclude that the new variant is highly transmissible.In India, the health ministry was quick to sound an alarm – at a press briefing on December 2, the Indian Council of Medical Research director Dr Balram Bhargava said not attending mass gatherings will help break the chain of transmission of Omicron.But state governments...Read more

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