Patna: Bihar Chief minister Nitish Kumar tested positive for Omicron on Tuesday.
In fact, all 40 COVID-19 samples sent from Bihar to Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) for the second round of genome sequencing were found to be infected with the new variant of coronavirus.
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The samples were collected between January 1 and 11. The CM’s office had tweeted on January 10 that he had tested positive for COVID-19.
Bihar’s Omicron tally went up to 67 as the state reported 4,551 new COVID-positive cases on Tuesday. The total number of active cases in the state is 33,883.
