200 Primary Contacts Of Karnataka Omicron Cases Traced, Some Tested +ve: Official
NDTV
Twenty-one cases of Omicron variant of COVID-19 have been reported across the country.
At least 200 people who came in contact with the two Omicron patients in Karnataka are being traced and isolated, a senior official said today, adding that some of them have been found positive.
"Samples of those who test positive in our day-to-day testing with high viral load and low CT value are being sent for genome sequencing," BBMP (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike) Commissioner Gaurav Gupta said.
Karnataka was the first state in the country to report two cases - 46-year-old male and a 66-year-old male - of the coronavirus variant in the country on Friday.
Three primary contacts and two secondary contacts of the 46-year-old man have also tested positive for the COVID-19 and their samples have been sent for further genome sequencing.
