Detection of the omicron variant in international travellers and their family contacts in India

  1. Varsha A. Potdar
  2. Pragya D. Yadav
  3. Kavita Lole
  4. Sarah Cherian
  5. Jayanti Shastri
  6. Bharati Malhotra
  7. Sumit Bharadwaj
  8. Alpana Razdan
  9. M L Choudhary
  10. Nivedita Gupta
  11. Priya Abraham
  12. NIC team
  13. Bioinformatics team
  14. BSL4 team
  15. The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG)
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With the emergence of the Variant of Concern, omicron (B.1.1.529), India has enhanced genomic surveillance in international travellers. The omicron variant was detected in 59 cases from different States; 40 from Maharashtra, 17 from Rajasthan and one each from Gujrat and Tamil Nadu. The positive cases and their contacts were asymptomatic and genomic surveillance could identify two clusters, one from Maharashtra and another from Rajasthan.

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