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Pakistan analysing samples of 3 'suspected' Omicron cases
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 12 (ANI): Pakistan's national health institute has said the results of samples of three "suspected cases" of the Omicron COVID-19 variant in the country will be received by Monday.
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Omicron: Chandigarh, Andhra Pradesh detect first cases, 3rd case in K'taka
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], December 12 (ANI): Chandigarh reported its first case of Omicron after swab samples of a fully vaccinated 20-year-old male passenger from Italy, who had tested COVID-19 positive on December 1, revealed the presence of the new variant of the novel coronavirus.
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Union Health Min asks States to submit samples of COVID cases of foreign r
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 8 (ANI): As India reported nearly two dozen Omicron cases, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan on Wednesday asked all the States to submit all the samples of positive cases of international travellers and their contacts as well as from emerging hotspots.
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18 fliers from at-risk countries tested positive for COVID-19, samples sen
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 3 (ANI): Union Health Minister Manuskh Mandaviya said on Friday that RT-PCR tests have been done of 16,000 passengers from 'at risk' countries and 18 samples have been sent for genome sequencing to determine if they have Omicron variant of the virus or not.
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5 contacts of 46-year-old Omicron infected person test COVID positive, gen
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], December 2 (ANI): As many as three primary contacts and two secondary contacts of the 46-year-old Karnataka man who was found infected with the Omicron variant, have also tested positive for the COVID-19 and their samples have been sent for further genome seque
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4 COVID-19 patients from 'at-risk' countries admitted to Delhi hospital sh
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 2 (ANI): Eight people travelling from 'at-risk' countries, of which four tested COVID positive, were admitted to Delhi's Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital on Wednesday, as their samples were sent for genome sequencing to detect if the samples are positive
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We are preparing for diagnosis, gene sequencing of 'Omicron' variant on la
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 1 (ANI): Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital has a capacity of processing 100 samples for gene sequencing in a day, a senior doctor said on Tuesday.
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India conducts over 10 lakh COVID-19 tests in last 24 hours
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 30 (ANI): Over 10 lakh samples were tested for COVID-19 across the country in the last 24 hours, informed the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Tuesday.
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Omicron: Kerala to deploy health workers at all 4 airports
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], November 30 (ANI): Kerala Health Minister Veena George on Monday said that the health workers will be deployed at all the four airports in the state in order to collect samples and conduct testing of people coming from foreign countries.
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'A little different from Delta variant': Karnataka Minister on COVID-19 po
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], November 29 (ANI): Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar on Monday said that samples of one of the two passengers who arrived at the Bengaluru airport from South Africa had tested positive for novel coronavirus which is "a little different from the Delta vari
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Maharashtra: A South Africa returnee tests positive for COVID; samples wil
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 29 (ANI): A person, who returned from South Africa to Dombivli, has been tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, said the Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC).
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South Africa to share Omicron strain samples with foreign biosecurity bodi
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Cape Town [South Africa], November 27 (ANI/Sputnik): South Africa will share the samples of the new Omicron coronavirus variant with biosecurity agencies of other nations, the director of the country's Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation, Tulio de Oliveira, said on Saturday.
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