09 December,2021 08:15 AM IST | New Delhi | Agencies
A woman gets a vaccine dose in Mirzapur, UP. Pic/PTI
In the wake of Omicron cases being detected in a few places in the country, the Union health ministry on Wednesday wrote to states and union territories, stating that patients of the new variant have to be treated in designated COVID facilities.
It has to be ensured that no cross infection takes place and adequate precautions are taken by healthcare workers in these facilities to prevent transmission among other patients and healthcare workers, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said in a letter to states and union territories.
Bhushan advised them to regularly review and ensure that samples of positive cases of international travellers and their contacts as well as from emerging hot spots are promptly submitted to INSACOG labs for genome sequencing according to protocol.
To contain spread, states and UTs should follow a mission mode and focused approach of quickly tracking primary and secondary contacts of positive cases and facilitate testing, he said.
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3,46,56,822
Total no. of Coronavirus cases in India so far
4,73,952
Total no. of deaths due to the virus in India so far
93,733
Total no. of active cases in India
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