The Patient was fully vaccinated; says govt
Delhi has reported its second case of Omicron variant as a 35-year-old traveler who returned from Zimbabwe tested positive. The person had also travelled to South Africa. He is admitted at the LNJP Hospital and only has weaknesses, sources said.
He returned to India from Zimbabwe and the man was fully vaccinated, sources added.
The LNJP hospital has been designated for the treatment of patients infected with the new omicron variant of the corona virus.
India’s variant tally reached 33. Meanwhile, 7992 cases in the last 24 hours have pushed India’s Covid tally to 3, 46,682,736. Active cases have declined to 93,277, the lowest in 559 days, as per the union ministry data. The death toll has mounted to 4, 75,128 with 393 fresh fatalities and the recoveries remained more than the new cases detected, 9265 patients recovered.
The recovery rate in India stands at 98.36% and this is the highest since March last year.
The national capital recorded its first omicron case on December 5, Sunday. Health minister Satyendar Jain said that the man, of Indian origin, has come to Delhi from Tanzania a few days and tested for Covid-19 with the omicron variant. He was admitted to the Lok Nayak hospital. The patient, a resident of Ranchi, has travelled from Tanzania to Doha and from there to Delhi on a Qatar Airways flight on December 2.
Globally, Omicron has reached nearly 60 countries, and many nations have started putting restrictions and lockdowns back in place, taking the world back to a similar situation in March 2020, when the pandemic has just begun.
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