South African traveller, Bengaluru doctor are India’s first Omicron patients

India’s first two Omicron-infected Covid-19 patients have been detected in Karnataka. One of them is a 66-year-old man who travelled from South Africa while the other is a 46-year-old anaesthetist based in Bengaluru, the health ministry said on Thursday. Their contacts have also been traced, it added. Via Times of India https://ift.tt/2hJjhqE