Different from Delta: Karnataka minister offers a cryptic clue

Health minister says a person who came to Bengaluru from South Africa is infected with a different COVID variant

Amid the Omicron scare, Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar on Monday said the sample of one of the two persons who arrived in Bengaluru recently from South Africa is ‘different from the Delta variant’.

“There is a 63-year-old man whose name I should not disclose. His report is a bit different. It appears different from the Delta variant. We will discuss with the ICMR officials and will let people know by the evening what it is,” the minister said. Meanwhile, officials from Madhya Pradesh are looking for a woman from Bostwana who visited the state on November 18. 

2 bodies rot for over a year

In another grim development, the bodies of two Covid victims were found to be rotting in Bengaluru’s ESIC hospital mortuary since July 2020, it has emerged.

Policy on booster, more doses in two weeks: Task force chief

With the emergency of new Covid-19 variant ‘Omicron’, Covid-19 task force chairman Dr N K Arora said that a comprehensive policy on the booster and additional doses of Covid-19 vaccine will be announced in two weeks.

“National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) is coming up with a comprehensive policy on the booster and additional doses in the next two weeks. The policy will deal with who will require the vaccine, when and how. This needs to be seen in the context that a new variant is coming and with time only we will get to know more information about it. Therefore relevance and effectiveness of the current vaccines will also become apparent with time only,” said Arora.

“There is a difference between booster dose and additional dose. A booster dose is given in a predefined period after two primary doses. Whereas, an additional dose is only given to those people who have problems with their immune function even after the primary doses,” he added.

3,45,80,832
Total no. of Coronavirus cases in India so far

4,68,790
Total no. of deaths due to the virus in India so far

1,03,859
Total no. of active cases in India

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