Bhubaneswar: The Omicron tally in Odisha shot up to 14 with five more persons testing positive for the new variant of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.
Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) informed that all of them had tested positive for COVID-19 and genome sequencing of their samples confirmed that they had contracted Omicron variant.
The Health Department is yet to share details about the persons infected with the ‘variant of concern’.
Earlier, nine foreign returnees had tested positive for Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Odisha. On Wednesday an UAE returnee was found infected with the Omicron variant in Odisha.
He is a 31-year-old man of Keonjhar and has been admitted to a private hospital.
Odisha had on December 21 reported the first case of Omicron with two foreign returnees (Nigeria and Qatar) testing positive for the variant.
Meanwhile, the state reported 225 fresh COVID-19 cases.
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