According to an email from Google VP Chris Rackow, seen by CNBC, Google postponed its employee return-to-work plans indefinitely. As stated earlier it will not be requiring its employees to return to offices on January 10. In August, when the delta variant was a top concern, Google had announced plans for hybrid return-to-work till January 10, 2022.
Two cases of Omicron variant of coronavirus have been detected through INSACOG in Karnataka, Union Health Ministry has said. Both the patients are males and their primary and secondary contacts have been traced and are being tested, the Ministry said.
Authorities in Karnataka confirmed that the second patient does not have any travel history. 218 contacts have been identified and tested, out of which three primary contacts and two secondary contacts have been found positive. These samples have been sent for genome sequencing.