India has now registered total 21 cases of omircron variant on Sunday after Delhi and Rajasthan reported their first cases and seven more cases in Maharashtra.
The tally rose after Delhi, Maharashtra and Rajasthan registered one, seven and nine cases respectively on Sunday.
In India so far, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Delhi have reported cases of omicron.
After revising the Bihar tally yesterday, India registered total 8,895 fresh Covid-19 cases and 2,796 deaths in last 24 hours, out of which 2,426 were only from Bihar.
The nine people who have tested positive for omicron in Rajasthan have came to Jaipur from South Africa and the person who have tested positive in Delhi has returned from Tanzania.
While in Maharashtra, the seven cases has been reported from Pimpri-Chunchwad and Pune.
The first case in Maharashtra was reported on Saturday after a Dombivili resident returned from South Africa’s Cape Town. Now the state tally stands at eight.
The fresh cases registered on Sunday shows Kerala at the top in the number of new cases which stands at 4,557 cases, Maharashtra with 782, Tamil Nadu with 731, West Bengal with 621 ans Karnataka with 397 cases.
Meanwhile, the civic body of Karnataka, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), has tracked down all the ten passengers who came from South Africa on November 20 went missing.
The civic body had found two cases of omicron on Thursday and after that the ten passengers went missing.
However, the person who was the first omicron patient has “escaped” India after showing a fake Covid-19 test report from a private lab to fly to Dubai. The 66-year-old patient had came to India on November 20 and left on November 27 for Dubai.
“We’ve lodged a complaint with High Grounds police to understand what went wrong at Shangri-La Hotel that the person escaped,” said Karnataka revenue minister R Ashok.
