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People enactment up to registry their names to person COVID-19 vaccine successful Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

NEW DELHI – India connected Thursday confirmed its archetypal cases of the omicron coronavirus variant successful 2 radical who traveled abroad, and a apical aesculapian adept urged radical to get vaccinated.

India’s Health Ministry said the cases see 2 men successful confederate Karnataka authorities who came from abroad. It did not accidental which country.

Health authoritative Lav Agarwal said each contacts of the 2 men had been traced and tested for the virus.

India has already classified astatine slightest 12 “at risk” and six “ultra-risk” countries successful effect to the menace posed by the omicron variant.

Travelers from those countries are being tested aft they get successful India. Genome sequencing is besides being done to observe the variant. So far, India has tested astir 8,000 passengers since Wednesday.

Balram Bhargava, the caput of the Indian Council of Medical Research, India’s apex aesculapian probe body, urged radical not to panic and to get vaccinated.

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“Increased vaccine uptake is the request of the hour. Don’t hold successful getting afloat vaccinated,” helium said.

Some Indian states person issued strict regularisation guidelines for planetary arrivals arsenic precautionary measures, including mandatory COVID-19 tests for those originating from South Africa, Botswana, and Hong Kong.

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