Andhra Pradesh and Chandigarh reported their first case of Omicron on Sunday, while Maharashtra and Karnataka also recorded one more case each of the new variant, taking the countrywide tally to 37. A fully vaccinated man, 20, who arrived in Chandigarh from Italy, and a 34-year old foreign traveller who came to Mumbai from Ireland and then went to Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, have tested positive for Omicron.

A man who arrived from South Africa became the third person to test positive for Omicron in Karnataka, while a 40-year-old man tested positive after returning to Nagpur in Maharashtra from a West African country. The man in Chandigarh is currently in institutional quarantine and has been asymptomatic throughout. His seven high-risk family contacts have tested negative, an official statement said. “He is fully inoculated with Pfizer vaccine which he got in Italy.”