Telangana Reports 14 New Omicron Cases; State’s Tally Rises To 38
Mumbai: Fourteen new Omicron cases were reported in Telangana in the last 24 hours, taking the state’s tally to 38, the state Health Department said.
Of the 14 patients, 12 are returnees from countries not in the ‘at-risk’ category, while two are from ‘at-risk’ countries.
According to the state health department, 259 passengers were screened at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on Wednesday, out of which 4 cases tested positive for RTPCR.
All four samples from travellers travelling from “at-risk” countries were sent for genome sequencing, of which 2 tested positive for the Omicron variant.
The results of the 4 samples are awaited. 12 samples tested positive for the variant from a random sampling basis from other than “At risk” countries. India has reported more than 200 cases of Omicron so far.
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