10 December,2021 05:58 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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On Friday, Mumbai's Dharavi reported its first Omicron case, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has confirmed.
The person, who had returned from Tanzania, has now been admitted at SevenHills Hospital.
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So far, India has reported 25 cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 but none of the patients have reported severe symptoms, Union Health Ministry's Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal said on Friday, amid global alarm over the new strain of the coronavirus.
The Joint Secretary also added that the symptoms in all detected cases are "mild" and account for 0.04 per cent of the total variants detected.
While addressing a health briefing, Agarwal said, "Overall 25 Omicron cases in the country so far. All detected cases have mild symptoms. Less than 0.04 per cent of total variants detected."
Pressing on the need to strictly follow the Covid-19 Appropriate Behaviour (CAB), he said, "World Health Organisation (WHO) has highlighted that the public health measures should be abided by on a continual, besides vaccination. Adequate precautions have to be followed...Laxity in public health measures is leading to a surge in cases in Europe."
