Bhubaneswar: More than 50 people, who come into contact with nine people who have contracted Omicron in the state until now, has been tested negatively for Covid-19.
The ninth person who will be infected by Omicron is Dubai Returnee.
In most cases, more than 10 contacts are tracked and tracked.
“Because people who are back in isolation, the alleged contact has not been infected.
Testing and tracking are ongoing.
We also sent five percent of the positively tested samples to Covid to the Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) here for the genome sequencing,” said Bijay Mohapatra, said Director of Health Services.
Meanwhile, three foreign returns – two of Finland and one from South Africa – were tested positive for Covid.
Their samples have also been sent to ILS.
On Wednesday, the Covid Graph of the State daily took a leap with 221 new infections from the 63.290 samples tested, thus registering the iThe level of the test of 0.34.
Since December 22, there is a decrease in infection.
It remains low until Tuesday (156 cases).
TPR has floated around 0.20% over the past two weeks.
1 more cases ‘omicron’ in a state, total touch 9
