Jaipur: Eight more people tested positive for the very contagious and contagious Omicron variant of Covid-19 in the state on Monday, bringing a total calculation to 17.
“Eight new cases of Omicron variants have been reported from the country.
Three of Ajitgarh Sikar, four From Adarsh Nagar Jaipur and a student who arrived from Ukraine on December 6 was tested positive for the variant, “said Dr.
Ravi Prakash Sharma, director of the countryside, rural health.
A city resident and a medical student in Ukraine, who was tested positive for Covid on arrival at Jaipur Airport on December 6, was tested positively omicron.
“The first nine Covid-19 cases were reported on December 5 when a family of four who arrived at Jaipur from South Africa were tested positively variants and five families in Adarsh Nagar who came into contact with them were also positively tested.
The Adarsh Nagar family now has nine cases Omicron – Lima was reported on December 5 and four reported on December 13, “said a health department official.
Meanwhile the country reported 27 new Covid infections on Monday took the overall calculation to 9.55,103.
Two people also died in the last 24 hours took the total number of victims to 8,958.
Since July 31, the country has reported four deaths, where two occurred in the last 24 hours.
The last time the country reported death on December 6 at Bikaner.
Of the two victims, Rajsamand reported the 170th Covid death, while Churu reported the 108th.
The Ministry of Health requests its official in all districts to strictly follow a five-fold strategy to ensure that the Covid case should not spread in the state.
Video conferencing was held where the head of the medical health and major medical officials along with other officials attended a meeting led by Vaibhav Galriya Health Secretary.
Galriya said, “To prevent the spread of Covid, the direction has been spent to test-track-treatment and vaccinate and maintain the appropriate behavior of Covid.” Also, the Ministry of Health has issued instructions to send samples of all covid positive cases for genome sequencing so that there are new variants can be detected early.
The Ministry of Health also encourages people to complete their vaccination.
Galriya said in recent days, Covid vaccination has produced several steps.
A health department official said all districts have been directed to do special drives to complete more vaccinations.
Until December 13, 7.43 Crore vaccine doses have been given.
On Monday, Hanumangarh reported eight cases, Jaipur (7), Bikaner (7), Udaipur (2), Srianganganagar (2), while one case was reported from Churu.
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