Bengaluru Omicron Patient A Doctor, 5 Contacts Test Positive For Covid

Five contacts of an Omicron patient – a doctor from Bengaluru -- have turned out to be Covid positive, Karnataka announced yesterday, shortly after the Union health ministry said the first patients of the new Covid variant have been found in the state. The patients have been isolated and their samples have been sent for genome testing, Karnataka said amid concern over the highly infectious strain that has set off global alarm.