A woman contact of an Omicron case in Rajasthan has been found coronavirus positive in Delhi and is being moved to the Lok Nayak Hospital, said officials on Friday.
On Thursday the woman tested Covid positive and she did not travel to any foreign country. 17 members in her family have also been also under home quarantine, informed an official.
She is being taken to the LNJP Hospital and her sample has been sent for genome sequencing to the National Centre for Disease Control, the official said, adding her contacts are being traced. On Sunday the first case of Omicron was reported in Delhi- a 37-year-old fully vaccinated man who arrived in Delhi from Tanzania.
The patient, a resident of Ranchi, had travelled from Tanzania to Doha and from there to Delhi on a Qatar Airways flight on December 2. For a week he stayed in Johannesburg, South Africa. The person has” mild symptoms”. The results of 12 out of 17 samples sent for genome sequencing were released on Sunday. Eleven of them tested negative.
India recorded 8,503 new COVID-19 cases, 624 deaths in the last 24 hours, pushing the overall caseload to 3,46,74,744 and the total death toll to 4,74,735, as per data released by the Ministry of Health on Friday (December 10, 2021). The active caseload stands at 94,943.
With the administration of 74,57,970 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 131.18 Cr (1,31,18,87,257) as per provisional reports till 7 am today. This has been achieved through 1,36,76,290sessions.
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The recovery of 7,678 patients in the last 24 hours has increased the cumulative tally of recovered patients (since the beginning of the pandemic) to 3,41,05,066.
Consequently, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.36%, highest since March 2020.
