First Case of Omicron in India

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India has confirmed two cases of the Omicron variant of coronavirus in Karnataka.

• The announcement was made following confirmation from the Indian SARSCoV­2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) that monitors the genomic variations of the pandemic.
• One is a 66-year-old South African national and the second, a 46-year-old Indian doctor from Bengaluru.
• So far the Omicron variant has been confirmed by the WHO in at least 23 countries, with the bulk of them in South Africa.
• The Director of South Africa’s Communicable Disease Institute has said that this variant is the most likely candidate to displace the highly contagious Delta Variant.

5 contacts test positive

Karnataka Health and Medical Education Minister K. Sudhakar said that out of 13 primary contacts and 205 secondary contacts 5 have tested positive and their samples have been sent for sequencing.