Lagatar24 Desk
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 20: Kerala reported four new cases of Omicron on Monday, taking the total number of cases of the Omicron in the state to 15.
Two cases of the new variant of coronavirus were detected in patients aged 41 and 67. They both are the mother and grandmother of the 17-year-old patient in Thiruvananthapuram who came from the UK on December 9 along with his father, mother and sister.
Notably, Kerala detected its first Omicron case on December 12 in Ernakulam district when a person who had returned from the UK tested positive.
With the new cases, India’s Omicron case count is now at least 167. According to central and state officials, Omicron cases have been detected in: Maharashtra (54), Delhi (24), Rajasthan (17) and Karnataka (19), Telangana (20), Gujarat (11), Kerala (15), Andhra Pradesh (1), Chandigarh (1), Tamil Nadu (1) and West Bengal (4).