The state's Covid caseload went up to 1,79,174
The genome sequencing of their swab samples confirmed it, a senior official said
Mumbai on Sunday reported 213 fresh coronavirus positive cases and one fatality, taking the tally to 7,63,835 and the toll to 16,349, the city civic body said.
Kerala reported 4,450 new Covid-19 cases and 23 deaths in the past 24 hours, as per the state health bulletin on Sunday.
A 37-year-old fully vaccinated man who arrived in Delhi from Tanzania has tested positive for Omicron, making it the first case of the new COVID-19 variant in the national capital. The patient, a resident of Ranchi, had travelled from Tanzania to Doha and from there to Delhi on a Qatar Airways flight on December 2. He stayed in Johannesburg, South Africa, for a week, officials told PTI. The person is fully vaccinated and is currently admitted to the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan (LNJP) Hospital with mild symptoms, an official said. He had to take a connecting flight to Ranchi, where he lives with his family. Since he gave his sample at the IGI Airport which came out positive, we admitted him to the Lok Nayak Hospital as per the procedure, the official said. Authorities are trying to locate and isolate 10 people who occupied the seats close to this passenger on the flight. Delhi's Health Minister Satyendar Jain said 17 COVID-19 patients and six of their contacts have been admitted
Karnataka on Sunday reported 456 fresh Covid-19 cases and six deaths taking the caseload and cumulative fatalities to 29,98,099 and 38,230 respectively, the state health department said.
Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday recorded 161 fresh cases of coronavirus, taking the number of infected people to 3,37,807, while two fatalities in the past 24 hours raised the death toll to 4,481.
Delhi reported 63 coronavirus cases and zero deaths on Sunday, as the positivity rate rose marginally to 0.11 per cent, according to data shared by the city's health department. With the fresh cases, the overall infection tally in the city rose to 14,41,358 while the death toll was 25,098. The number of active cases is 370, of which 144 are in home-isolation. The positivity rate on Sunday rose to 0.11 per cent from 0.08 per cent the day before.
Most travel bans target South Africa, which raised the alarm about Omicron on 24 November, and Botswana, which also reported early cases
Seven persons from Pune district have tested positive for Omicron variant of coronavirus, a health official said on Sunday.
Kerala on Sunday recorded 4,450 fresh Covid-19 cases and 161 deaths, raising the caseload to 51,54,092 and the toll to 41,600 respectively, the State government said.
Two women publishers from Pune attending the 94th Marathi literary meet here in Maharashtra have tested positive for coronavirus, civic officials said on Sunday.
Odisha on Sunday reported 189 new Covid-19 cases, four less than the previous day, with the tally rising to 10,50,249, a health department bulletin said.
A day after two international passengers tested positive for COVID-19 in Tamil Nadu amid new Omicron variant of coronavirus, another passenger from Singapore tested positive for the infection.
As many as 69 people including 59 students of the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya here have tested positive for Covid-19 and all are asymptomatic, a health officer said.
The country reported a single-day rise of 2,796 deaths on Sunday after Bihar reconciled its Covid data. This pushed the overall death toll to 473,326
BMC update has a list of 3,760 travellers to Mumbai from high-risk countries and 2,794 have been traced and tested for Covid-19
India has so far administered 1,276,183,065 vaccine doses. That is 3684.84 per cent of its total caseload, and 91.23 per cent of its population
India's total tally of COVID-19 cases has increased to 3,46,33,255, according to health ministry.
Fifteen suspected patients of Omicron, who flew in the national capital from 'at risk' countries, are admitted to the Delhi government's LNJP hospital, according to a senior hospital official