Telangana on Friday, reported news agency PTI, quoting health officials. With this, the state's tally of the new strain has reached nine, which also includes a boy from West Bengal who flew to Kolkata with his family members without entering Hyderabad after his samples were collected at the international airport.
Observing that all the eight cases in the state were passengers who arrived from abroad, state Director of Public Health G Srinivasa Rao said neither community transmission nor locals testing positive for Omicron occurred in Telangana so far.
One of the positive cases is a woman who came from the UK and belongs to Hanumakonda at Warangal in Telangana. She had tested negative in the test conducted at Hyderabad airport, but