The decision was taken at a meeting of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) in which the Omicron situation, including its possible effects and steps to deal with it, was discussed, according to the chief minister. Amid the growing number of Omicron cases in Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday afternoon said all samples that test positive for the infection will now be sent for genome sequencing.A total of 34 cases of the new Omicron variant of coronavirus have been reported in Delhi’s Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital, out of which 17 patients have been discharged and the rest of the patients are admitted in other hospitals, informed Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Tuesday.In Maharashtra, as many as 31 patients out of 54 who have been found infected with the new coronavirus variant Omicron in Maharashtra so far have been discharged from hospitals after they returned negative RT-PCR test reports, a health department official said.Out of the 200 Omicron cases in India, 77 patients have recovered or migrated, informed the Health Ministry.Also Read - 73% Of New Covid Cases In US Are Omicron, Strain Now 'Dominant' Here are the top 10 points from this story
And, Uttar Pradesh recorded two Omicron cases, and Andhra Pradesh, Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal registered one case each.
Meanwhile, the number of Omicron cases in Telangana, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Kerala, and Gujarat’s stood at 20,19,18, 15, and 14 respectively. With Maharashtra and Delhi registering the maximum number of cases at 54 each, India now has around 200 Omicron infections. Investigations are on.New Delhi: The new omicron variant of the coronavirus infection took only a few weeks to spread across 12 states in India taking the total tally in the nation to 200 on Tuesday, as per the data provided by the Union Health Ministry. Police said Sarfuddin already had theft complaints registered against him. City police alerted the stations across the state and nabbed the man in Tiruchi who was brought to the city late on Thursday night. The police lifted CCTV footages from a showroom in the same area and traced one of the man as Sarfuddin. A complaint was registered at the Pondy Bazaar police station. Soon after robbing the woman, the duo escaped from the scene. Meanwhile, an accomplice of the suspect was waiting on the bike. She stepped out of the car to take the money and walked a few feet, when the man took the bag of valuables placed in the back seat of the car,” said the police. “The man told the actress that some of her currency notes had fallen outside the car door. She told the police that after taking the jewels she was alone in the car waiting for her son to return when a middle-aged man approached her. The mother and son had gone to the bank to take valuables from the locker to attend a relative’s wedding, when the incident was reported. Police said Raja Shree, a resident of West Mambalam, had gone with her son Srinivasan to a nationalised bank in Panagal Park on April 12. The arrested was identified as Sarfuddin, a native of Ramji Nagar near Tiruchi.