T’gana, TN & Bengal report first Omicron cases; India tally at 73
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
16.12.2021
India’s Omicron tally rose to 73 on Wednesday from 61 the previous day even as Telangana, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal reported their first cases, taking the total number of states and Union territories which have patients with the highly infected coronavirus variant to 11. In all, 12 cases were reported from five states in the last 24 hours.
While West Bengal and Tamil Nadu reported one case each, two foreign nationals from Kenya and Somalia tested positive for the variant in Telangana. Four more cases were reported from Maharashtra, taking the state’s caseload to 32, the highest in the country followed by Rajasthan which has 17 patients. Four fresh cases were reported in Kerala, taking the state tally to five.
A seven-year-old boy who had arrived in Kolkata on December 11 from Abu Dhabi via Hyderabad became Bengal’s first Omicron patient. The boy, from Murshidabad, remains asymptomatic and is now at an isolation ward in Malda Medical College. In Telangana, a 24-year-old Kenyan who travelled from Qatar on December 12 and a 23-year-old Somali who had come as a patient’s attendant from Sharjah on the same day tested positive for the variant.
Tamil Nadu’s first case, a 47-year-old man who travelled to Chennai from Nigeria via Doha on December 10, was confirmed by ICMR National Institute of Virology.
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