{"id":4447,"date":"2021-12-02T13:07:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T13:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=4447"},"modified":"2021-12-02T13:07:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T13:07:27","slug":"india-confirms-two-cases-of-omicron-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/india-confirms-two-cases-of-omicron-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"India confirms two cases of Omicron variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: India has detected two cases of the new Omicron coronavirus variant in the southern state of Karnataka, a health ministry official said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All primary contacts and secondary contacts of both the cases have been traced and are being tested,&#8221; the health ministry&#8217;s joint secretary Lav Agarwal told a news briefing.<\/p>\n<p>India was set to restart scheduled commercial international flights on December 15, but on Wednesday scrapped that plan and said a resumption date would be announced in due course.<\/p>\n<p>The government has advised states to ramp up testing, a week after the health ministry said a recent fall in testing could undermine India&#8217;s efforts to contain the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>After battling a record jump in infections and deaths in April and May, coronavirus cases have come down substantially in India, where the Delta variant is the dominant strain.<\/p>\n<p>The country reported 9,765 new cases on Thursday, taking its total to 34.61 million. Only the United States has reported more.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/new-corona-variant-shafqat-mahmood-says-govt-wants-to-continue-educational-activities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Corona Variant: Shafqat Mahmood says govt wants to continue educational activities<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: India has detected two cases of the new Omicron coronavirus variant in the southern state of Karnataka, a health ministry official said on Thursday. &#8220;All primary contacts and secondary contacts of both the cases have been traced and are being tested,&#8221; the health ministry&#8217;s joint secretary Lav Agarwal told a news briefing. India was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,3],"tags":[3021,582,3012,636],"class_list":["post-4447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-delta-variant","tag-ncoc","tag-shafqat-mahmood","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}