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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. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The nation’s big…

Kuwait City, 2nd December 2021: Health ministry official says the cases were confirmed in southern Karnataka state while contacts were being traced India has become the latest country to report cases of the new Omicron coronavirus variant as regulators in the United Kingdom have given the green light for the use of a monoclonal therapy, called sotrovimab, to treat those at high risk of developing severe COVID-19 symptoms. The news came as South Korea’s daily coronavirus case numbers rose to a new high with authorities halting quarantine exemptions for fully vaccinated inbound travellers for two weeks in a bid to fend off the new variant.     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Meanwhile in the United States, fears over the impact of the new coronavirus strain have risen after it reported its first case in a fully vaccinated person in California. The case returned from South Africa on November 22 and tested positive seven …