Delhi Hospitals On Alert Over New Covid Variant 'Omicron': Sources

Delhi's Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal has directed the Chief Secretary, Police Commissioner, and other senior officers to ensure strict adherence to all Covid protocols in public places, sources told NDTV.

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Delhi's Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal has directed the Chief Secretary, Police Commissioner and other senior officers of the national capital to ensure strict adherence to all Covid protocols in public places and functions and full preparedness in hospitals to deal with any emergency, sources have told NDTV.

The Delhi Disaster Management Authority will meet experts and representatives of the Ministry of Civil Aviation on Monday to review the situation and plan a way forward as countries start reporting cases related to this strain which, according to virologists, has an "unusually large number of mutations", they added.

A decision will be taken at the meet on conducting RT-PCR tests on passengers deboarding flights from South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Hong Kong, and quarantining them, the sources further said.