: India’s Omicron tally rises to 38, Chandigarh, AP and Kerala report first cases of new variant #IndiaNEWS The number of persons found infected with the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in India increased

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India’s Omicron tally rises to 38, Chandigarh, AP and Kerala report first cases of new variant #IndiaNEWS
The number of persons found infected with the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in India increased to 38 on Sunday after one case each was reported from Chandigarh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Kerala, PTI reported.Chandigarh, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala reported their first cases of the new strain. The infections in Karnataka and Maharashtra were the third and eighteenth cases in the respective states.Andhra PradeshThe person who tested positive in Andhra Pradesh was a 34-year-old foreign traveller who had arrived in Mumbai from Ireland, ANI reported. The man was allowed to travel to Vishakhapatnam. Later, when he underwent another test in Vizianagaram, he was found to be Covid-19 positive. The man tested positive for the Omicron variant after his sample was sent for genome sequencing to the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad. On December 11, he tested negative for Covid-19.The Andhra Pradesh state government has said that 15 travellers have been found Covid-19 positive in the state till now, according to ANI. The samples of all of them were sent to the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology. Out of these, only the 34-year-old man tested positive for the Omicron variant, while the results of five samples are awaited.ChandigarhThe person who tested positive for the Omicron variant...Read more

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