NEW DELHI: The Union Health Ministry has on Thursday officially confirmed two cases of the Omicron variant of Coronavirus in the country. As per the Health ministry’s Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal, two men from Karnataka, aged 66 and 46, tested positive for the variant on Wednesday, and all the primary and secondary contacts of both cases have been traced and are being tested.
Agarwal further said that Omicron, since its detection in southern Africa on November 24, has spread to 30 countries, including India.
“As on December 1, 375, including two cases of India, cases of the Omicron variant have been found across the world. The new Omicron variant is possibly 500 per cent more competitively infectious and has more than two times the number of bad spike mutations than the Delta variant,” he said, adding: “We should strictly continue to follow Covid appropriate behaviour as a counter measure to protect ourselves from Omicron variant too.”
Meanwhile, on the issue, NITI Aayog Member Dr VK Paul said increased Covid19 vaccine uptake is the need of the hour and asked people to not delay in getting fully vaccinated.
This story is from the December 03, 2021 edition of Millennium Post Delhi.
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