Omicron scare: Two international travellers test COVID-19 positive in Tamil Nadu, reports awaited

Tamil Nadu Health Minister Subramanian said that the Singapore returnee had tested positive at the Trichy airport, whereas a 10-year old boy, returning from the UK had been tested positive at Chennai. 

Chennai: International flights that arrived in Tamil Nadu from Singapore and the UK are under close watch, after two passengers tested positive for COVID-19. The two passengers who tested positive have been admitted in hospitals and isolated. 

Samples for genome sequencing and identifying the COVID-19 variant are also being tested, according to the Tamil Nadu Government. This comes just a day after two cases of the new COVID variant of concern Omicron were detected in neighbouring Karnataka. 

Elaborating on this, Tamil Nadu Health Minister Subramanian said that the Singapore returnee had tested positive at the Trichy airport, whereas a 10-year old boy, returning from the UK had been tested positive at Chennai.