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Two people have been found positive for the Omicron variant of Covid in Karnataka

BS Web Team New Delhi
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1 min read Last Updated : Dec 02 2021 | 11:37 PM IST
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Maha govt waives exams fee of state board students who lost parents due to Covid-19

The Maharashtra government on Thursday decided to waive the exam fee of Class 10 and 12 state board students, who have lost their parents due to coronavirus infection.
 
The fee to be waived is for the board exams to be conducted in 2022.
 
"A small solace from our side to the children who lost their parents to the pandemic - exam fee for state board exams 2021-22 is being waived off," state School Education Minister Varsha Gaikwad said.
 
"We are aware that they have gone through a lot already, but their education must continue," she said.

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India reports 1st two cases of Omicron variant from Karnataka

India on Thursday reported its first two cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 from Karnataka--in a South African national and a Bengaluru doctor with no travel history and both men fully vaccinated--even as the Centre faced questions from opposition parties on a timeline for a booster vaccine.
 
The Union Health Ministry while confirming the detection of two cases of Omicron variant in Bengaluru asked people not to panic but follow Covid-appropriate behaviour and get vaccinated without delay. It also said the scientific reasoning for booster vaccine doses is under examination and that priority is to complete the task of receiving both jabs of COVID vaccine.
 
Five contacts of the doctor have also tested positive and their samples have been sent for genomic sequencing, the Karnataka government said.

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Five more travellers from 'at risk' countries test Covid positive in Mumbai; nine so far

Five more persons, who arrived in Mumbai from 'at risk countries' tested positive for COVID-19 infection on Thursday amid concerns over the new Omicron variant of the virus, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials said.
 
The civic body's additional municipal commissioner Suresh Kakani said the number such travellers who have tested positive on arrival in the city and who are suspected to have been infected with the Omicron variant, increased to nine.
 
The BMC officials said that all the five travellers are males, who had arrived in the city from November 17 to December 2. Three of them had arrived from London, one from Portugal and the fifth one from Germany. According to civic officials they have carried out COVID-19 tests on a total of 485 travellers so far.

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Over 125.65 crore Covid vaccine doses administered in India: Govt

The total number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country crossed 125.65 crore on Thursday, the Union health ministry said.
 
According to the ministry, 84.3 per cent of the country's adult population have been administered the first dose of the vaccine, while 49 per cent have received the second dose.
 
More than 66 lakh (66,21,382) vaccine doses were administered till 7 pm on Thursday.
 
The daily vaccination tally is expected to increase with the compilation of the final report by late night, the ministry said.

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53 Odisha college students test positive for Covid

Fifty-three students of a college in Odisha's Dhenkanal district have tested positive for coronavirus, officials said on Thursday.
 
The emergence of the cluster of infections prompted the municipal administration to seal the Saikrupa Residential College at Kunjakanta in Dhenkanal town, around 60 km northwest of Bhubaneswar, for an indefinite period.
 
Three to four days ago, four students at a hostel in Kunjakanta area were detected with the disease, following which others there were tested, an official told journalists.
 
Thirty-three tested positive and the patients were moved to isolation. Later, 16 more students returned positive, taking the total to 53, according to the official.

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Two Omicron cases: One is South African, second a local doctor with no travel history

Out of two cases of the new Omicron variant of coronavirus that have been detected in the State, one is a South African national who has left the country after testing negative, while the other is a local person, a Doctor with no travel history, the Karnataka government said on Thursday.
 
Five contacts of the Doctor have also tested positive and their samples have been sent for genomic sequencing.
 
According to officials, both the persons who have tested positive for Omicron in Bengaluru city were vaccinated with two doses of COVID vaccine.

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First Published: Dec 02 2021 | 6:55 AM IST

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