#India announces first two cases of #Omicron variant, iiQ8 News
Kuwait City, 2nd December 2021:
#India announces first two cases of #Omicron variant
Two men in #Karnataka test positive for variant, contacts traced and tested
India announced its first two cases of the highly infectious Omicron COVID -19 variant on Thursday, months after a devastating wave of the virus killed more than 200,000 people around the country.
Top health ministry official Luv Agarwal said two men in southern Karnataka state, aged 66 and 46, had tested positive for the variant.
“As per the protocols all their primary and secondary contacts have been traced and are being tested,” he told a press briefing.
India has yet to impose new blanket international travel bans but on Monday the health ministry ordered all inbound travellers from “countries at-risk” to undergo mandatory post-arrival COVID-19 testing, along with the random testing of other international arrivals.
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