Andhra Pradesh, Chandigarh report their first Omicron case

A medic collects a nasal swab sample of a woman, at Superbazaar in Jammu, on Sunday. Pic/ANI

Andhra Pradesh and Chandigarh reported their first case of Omicron on Sunday, while Maharashtra and Karnataka also recorded one more case each of the new variant, taking the countrywide tally to 37. A fully vaccinated man, 20, who arrived in Chandigarh from Italy, and a 34-year old foreign traveller who came to Mumbai from Ireland and then went to Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, have tested positive for Omicron.

A man who arrived from South Africa became the third person to test positive for Omicron in Karnataka, while a 40-year-old man tested positive after returning to Nagpur in Maharashtra from a West African country. The man in Chandigarh is currently in institutional quarantine and has been asymptomatic throughout. His seven high-risk family contacts have tested negative, an official statement said. "He is fully inoculated with Pfizer vaccine which he got in Italy."

The man in Andhra Pradesh had tested negative after landing in Mumbai, and was then allowed to travel onward to Visakhapatnam on November 27. He took another RT-PCR test and his report came back positive for Covid-19. Till now, Omicron has been detected in Maharashtra (18), Rajasthan (9), Karnataka (3), Karnataka (3) and Andhra Pradesh (1) and in Union Territories of Delhi (2) and Chandigarh (1).

7,774 new Covid cases

With 7,774 people testing positive for coronavirus infection in a day, India's Covid-19 tally climbed to 3,46,90,510, while the number of active cases declined to 92,281, the lowest in 560 days, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Sunday morning. The death toll mounted to 4,75,434 with the addition of 306 new fatalities.

3,46,90,510
Total no. of Coronavirus cases in India so far

4,75,434
Total no. of deaths due to the virus in India so far

92,281
Total no. of active cases in India

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