<p>On Friday, Mumbai's Dharavi reported its first Omicron case, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has confirmed.</p>
<p>The person, who had returned from Tanzania, has now been admitted at SevenHills Hospital.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">One <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Omicron?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc-Etfw">#Omicron</a> case found in Dharavi area of Mumbai. The person had returned from Tanzania; now admitted at SevenHills Hospital: BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation)</p>
&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href="https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1469260908358557701?ref_src=twsrc-Etfw">December 10, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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."</p>
<p>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."</p>
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