Four new Omicron cases were detected in Kerala on Monday, taking the state's tally for the new Covid-19 variant to 15, ANI reported citing Health Minister Veena George's office.
All four cases were detected in the Trivandrum district. Of these, two have returned from the U.K., one is the primary contact of a family who returned from the U.K., and one has returned from Nigeria.
In Uttarakhand, a Covid-positive couple in Dehradun is Omicron suspected, after returning from meeting their Omicron positive relatives in Delhi with a travel history to Qatar, ANI reported citing District Magistrate R Rajesh Kumar. The couple's apartment has been declared as a micro-containment zone, genome sequencing report awaited, Kumar said.
