Omicron Variant in India: Concern has increased in India after the uncontrollable cases of Coronavirus in many countries including China, Japan, US. It has come to know only last day that all the variants of Omicron are available in India. Variants that wreaked havoc in China and America have also been found in India. In such a situation, there is concern in the country about the new wave of Corona. There is only one question in everyone’s mind that will there be a huge increase in the cases of corona in the coming week? Now the top expert of the government has made a big claim.
Dr. NK Arora, chairman of the Kovid Working Group, said on Tuesday (January 10), “There are many viruses here, but its speed is not increasing in the country. We have increased our genomic surveillance and started airport screening.” From what we have found in the testing so far, we are not finding any new variant. Even sewage sample has been taken, but we do not see any new variant or possibility of increase in the coming weeks.”
“no need to panic”
Dr. NK Arora further said, “What we in India omicron Looking at the variants, it can also be seen in any part of the world. The COVID variants have not been able to gain a foothold or cause hospitalization of the infected person. There is no need to panic, but we need to keep a close watch on European, North American and East Asian countries.”
All variants of Omicron are available in the country
Regarding Corona, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday that ‘Sentinel Sequencing’ of 324 Kovid positive samples taken between December 29, 2022 and January 7, 2023, revealed that the presence of Omicron sub-variant was found in all of them. . These include BA.2, BA 2.75, XBB (37), BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 (5) and other variants.
The ministry said in a statement that in areas where these variants have been detected, there is no information about the increase in mortality or infection cases. In addition, XBB (11), BQ.1.1 (12) and BF7.4.1 (1) were the main variants detected in the positive samples of fifty international travelers whose samples have been genome sequenced so far.
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