Madurai : In the rise of COVID’s new variant Omicron, which is detected in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu’s Madurai on December 4 announced a ban on the entry of unvaccinated people at the malls, shopping complexes, and other public places. The ban will be implemented from next week.
“One week’s time has been given to people to get at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, failing which those unvaccinated people to be not allowed to enter public places like hotels, shopping malls and other commercial establishments,” Madurai Collector Aneesh Sekhar told ANI.
Karnataka where country’s first two Omicron cases have been detected, has announced similar restrictions. The state has made it mandatory, that a person entering public places should be fully vaccinated.
Three international air travellers, including a child, who had arrived in Tamil Nadu from Singapore and the United Kingdom, have tested positive for Covid. The samples have been sent for genome sequencing to ascertain if they are infected with the latest variant of coronavirus.
The state recorded 711 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, taking Tamil Nadu’s tally to 27,29,061. The death count rose to 36,513 with 9 more Covid-related deaths on Friday.
Chennai and Coimbatore accounted for the majority of new infections with 128 and 127 cases respectively, while the remaining was scattered across other districts.
Eight people from abroad have been found corona positive at Lok Nayak Jai Prakash (LNJP) Hospital in Delhi. Samples of all these people have been sent for genome sequencing.
Omicron, the most dangerous variant of the corona virus, has knocked in India. In India, both Omicron cases have come to the fore in Karnataka. But now the sound of Omicron has been heard in Delhi too. In the last two days, 12 people from abroad have been admitted to LNJP Hospital in Delhi, out of which 8 people have been found positive and their samples have been sent for Whole Genome Sequencing so that the variant can be detected.
At the same time, samples of the remaining four have been sent for re-test. On this, ABP News spoke to Dr Suresh Kumar, Medical Director of LNJP Hospital. He told- “We have a total of 12 patients out of which 8 patients are corona positive. Of these, four were detected by RT-PCR while four were detected by RAT. The patients are from UK, France, Belgium and Tanzania. Most of the patients are fine. It is a mild case and he has been admitted to the special ward. There is no need to admit them in the ICU.
He further told that those patients who were positive or had any symptoms, had mild fever. Out of this, 8 were found positive and we have sent the samples of rest of the people again this morning for RT PCR test. Samples of those who are positive have been sent for genome sequencing and it takes time because it is a complex scientific process and it takes time.
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