{"id":4875,"date":"2021-12-25T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=4875"},"modified":"2021-12-25T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T11:47:00","slug":"islamabad-reports-first-case-of-new-corona-variant-omicron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/islamabad-reports-first-case-of-new-corona-variant-omicron\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamabad reports first case of new corona variant \u201cOmicron\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Islamabad has reported the first case of the new COVID-19 strain, Omicron, a private news channel quoted the source in the National Institute of Health (NIH) on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the sources, the patient has no international travel history; nonetheless, the patient recently travelled to Karachi.<\/p>\n<p>The patient reportedly is in good health and has only minor symptoms. Contact tracing is currently being done to detect more cases, the sources added.<\/p>\n<p>It is pertinent to note that six more Omicron cases were reported in Karachi yesterday taking the total number of infections in the city to eight.<\/p>\n<p>According to the reports, the suspected patients have a travel history.<\/p>\n<p>Four of them came from South Africa, where the Omicron variation was first detected, while two others came from the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>They stated that the suspected patients&#8217; samples had been sent to a private hospital for confirmation and that the patients had been moved to a quarantine centre.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-reports-288-coronavirus-cases-7-deaths-in-24-hours.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pakistan reports 288 coronavirus cases, 7 deaths in 24 hours<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Islamabad has reported the first case of the new COVID-19 strain, Omicron, a private news channel quoted the source in the National Institute of Health (NIH) on Saturday. According to the sources, the patient has no international travel history; nonetheless, the patient recently travelled to Karachi. The patient reportedly is in good health and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,2],"tags":[3254,582,3255,2599,623],"class_list":["post-4875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-national-institute-of-health","tag-ncoc","tag-nih","tag-south-africa","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875","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=4875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}