: Omicron in community transmission stage in India, dominant strain in metros: Genome sequencing body #IndiaNEWS The Omicron variant of the coronavirus disease is in the community transmission stage

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Omicron in community transmission stage in India, dominant strain in metros: Genome sequencing body #IndiaNEWS
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus disease is in the community transmission stage in India and has become the dominant strain in multiple metro cities where new cases have been rising exponentially, the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium, the country’s genome sequencing body has said in its latest bulletin.Community transmission happens when coronavirus cases reported in the last 14 days cannot be linked to a specific cluster and when there are multiple unrelated clusters of cases, according to the World Health Organization. In its January 10 bulletin that was released on Sunday, the consortium also said that the BA.2, a sub-lineage of the Omicron variant, has been found in substantial fraction in the country and because of it S-gene dropout based testing was likely to give high false negatives.The BA.2 sub-lineage is not detected in S-gene dropout test. This testing method is used to detect the presence of Omicron variant as it cannot be detected by basic RT-PCR and RAT tests. When the S-gene dropout test detects the presence of other genes of the Sars-CoV-2 virus, but not the S-gene, it is considered indicative of Omicron infection.According to the WHO’s guidelines, this testing is used as a proxy method to detect suspected Omicron cases, which are confirmed...Read more

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