11 Omicron sub-variants discovered throughout testing of travellers; all earlier reported in India
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NEW DELHI: Eleven Omicron sub-variants have been discovered among the many 124 worldwide travellers who examined optimistic for COVID-19 between December 24 and January 3 and the presence of all these variants was earlier reported in India, official sources stated on Thursday.
They stated 19,227 worldwide travellers have been examined at airports, sea ports and land ports within the stated interval, 124 of them have been discovered Covid optimistic and put in isolation.
The sources stated of the 124 optimistic samples, the genome-sequencing outcomes of 40 have been acquired, of which XBB was present in 14 samples and BF 7.4.1 in a single pattern.
Meanwhile, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya urged residents to not panic unnecessarily however stay alert, comply with the directives issued by the federal government and never get carried away by deceptive studies associated to Covid.
The authorities has made random Covid assessments necessary for 2 per cent of the passengers arriving on every worldwide flight, no matter their port of departure, since December 24.
Besides, passengers arriving in India from China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand are being mandatorily required to offer Covid-negative studies from January 1.
The check must be performed no more than 72 hours previous to enterprise the journey to India and the unfavorable report from the RT-PCR check must be uploaded on the Air Suvidha portal earlier than departure.
This can even apply to the passengers transiting via the six nations, no matter their originating nations, earlier than arriving at any Indian airport.
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NEW DELHI: Eleven Omicron sub-variants have been discovered among the many 124 worldwide travellers who examined optimistic for COVID-19 between December 24 and January 3 and the presence of all these variants was earlier reported in India, official sources stated on Thursday.
They stated 19,227 worldwide travellers have been examined at airports, sea ports and land ports within the stated interval, 124 of them have been discovered Covid optimistic and put in isolation.
The sources stated of the 124 optimistic samples, the genome-sequencing outcomes of 40 have been acquired, of which XBB was present in 14 samples and BF 7.4.1 in a single pattern.
Meanwhile, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya urged residents to not panic unnecessarily however stay alert, comply with the directives issued by the federal government and never get carried away by deceptive studies associated to Covid.
The authorities has made random Covid assessments necessary for 2 per cent of the passengers arriving on every worldwide flight, no matter their port of departure, since December 24.
Besides, passengers arriving in India from China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand are being mandatorily required to offer Covid-negative studies from January 1.
The check must be performed no more than 72 hours previous to enterprise the journey to India and the unfavorable report from the RT-PCR check must be uploaded on the Air Suvidha portal earlier than departure.
This can even apply to the passengers transiting via the six nations, no matter their originating nations, earlier than arriving at any Indian airport.
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