China saw its first omicron cases in the community, igniting a mass testing blitz in the northern city of Tianjin as the country strives to maintain its zero-tolerance approach to Covid in the face of more transmissible variants.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tested COVID-19 positive as informed by him through his Twitter handle on Tuesday 4 January. He has mild symptoms and is currently under home isolation.
Dr Gautam Bhansali said that the Omicron variant is spreading rapidly in 34 countries of the world, including India, but so far no severe symptom or death has been seen in a single patient. He added that the patients are showing symptoms of flu, body pain, vomiting, diarrhoea.
what we re doing is taking some proportionate precautionary measures while our scientists crack the omicron code. reporter: in england, on tuesday, face masks became mandatory again in stores and on public transportation. israel confirmed its first cases of omicron community spread. this medical center said a doctor who traveled abroad and then infected a colleague. in the netherlands, where some are already isolating in this airport hotel, the government said the omicron variant was in the country a full week earlier than it originally thought, found in test samples from november 19th that were just sequenced. japan found its first omicron variant case, a man who traveled from namibia. its borders closed to all foreigners on tuesday. south african leaders are slamming those global travel bans as ineffective and punitive. we feel that the travel ban