The Odisha government has received 30,000 OmiSure testing kits, which will be used on trial run basis in four towns of the state to detect the Omicron variant of Covid-19, an official said yesterday.<\/p>\n
Odisha is the first state in India to place an order for the OmiSure kits. It had placed orders to procure 5 lakh kits, of which 30,000 kits have arrived, the official said.<\/p>\n
“The OmiSure kits have arrived. There are many variants of Covid-19. Omicron is one among them, which is highly transmissible. The OmiSure kits will be sent to places having a high caseload for an internal study,” said State director of health services, Bijay Mohapatra.<\/p>\n
Preliminary, the kits will be sent to Bhubaneswar, Berhampur, Cuttack and Rourkela where a high number of Covid cases are being detected in comparison to other places of the State, he informed.<\/p>\n
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) had recently approved the OmiSure kit developed by the Tata Medical and Diagnostics Ltd. (Tata MD) for RT-PCR detection of the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n
At present, the state government is sending samples to Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), Bhubaneswar for genome sequencing to detect the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV2. So far, the state has reported 202 Omicron cases.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the state has reported 11,607 new Covid-19 cases, including 991 cases from 0-18 age group, on Wednesday. With these new cases, the cumulative positive tally increased to 11,67,094, and active cases rose to 84,770.<\/p>\n
The death toll mounted to 8,494 with six fresh Covid fatalities. Two deaths were reported from Khurda district and one each from Bhadrak, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur and Jharsuguda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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