Omicron Scare: Lockdown In Delhi? Here's What Health Minister Satyendar Jain Has To Say

The Delhi government is nearly covering the COVID-19 situation arising out of the Omicron variant, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Monday. The Omicron variant is spreading out of a many countries, and”we are putting focus on testing, tracing and insulation of passengers” coming from foreign countries, especially the countries affected by the new variant.

Satyendar Jain said that the Delhi government has formerly put in place a” canted response action plan”, and it’ll be enforced consequently, as and when the cases and positivity rate rise He said the Delhi government authorities are” testing all people coming from the countries affected by the Omicron variant”, and advised that this variant is far more transmittable than the Delta variant, adding the situation is being” nearly covered”.

So far, a aggregate of 27 people have been transferred to LNJP Hospital, out of which 17 were plant Covid-positive, and only one person has been verified to have been inflected with Omicron variant, and disquisition is on to trace others, if any. All these cases have been admitted at the sanitarium, and numerous of them are asymptomatic, he told journalists The rest 10 people, who tested negative are those who came into close contact of people plant Covid positive.

The genome sequencing of samples taken from 12 cases has been done, out of which only one was plant positive with Omicron variant, and results of samples of rest five infected cases are anticipated in 2-3 days, he added When asked if there’s a possibility of a lockdown, he ruled out the possibility of a lockdown in the public capital.

“There’s no possibility of lockdown at the moment,”he was quoted as saying in a statement issued by the Delhi health department In the last five months, positivity rate has floated much below0.50 per cent and diurnal cases have stood in the range of 30-60 or so, he told journalists According to the canted response system, when the positivity rate will reach to0.50 per cent, that is, out of people tested, five are positive, also the first position of this system will be enforced, the Delhi health minister said.