Nagpur reports its first Omicron case
The Hindu
Maharashtra’s Omicron tally rises to 18
A 40-year-old man from Maharashtra’s Nagpur district, who arrived from South Africa earlier this month, tested positive for the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, said a report released on Sunday by the city-based National Institute of Virology (NIV).
The Maharashtra health authorities said that, with this, 18 cases of the Omicron variant had thus far been reported in the State, of which nine persons had already been discharged following negative RT-PCR tests.

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