Chennai: Tamilnadu Health Minister Ma.Subramanian has said so far 104 air passengers, who arrived from high-risk countries notified by the Centre, have tested positive for Covid-19.
Talking to reporters here, he said a total of 3,000 samples were lifted in the past fortnight of which 82 of them had the S-gene dropout, which was seen as a marker for the Omicron variant, which has been spreading faster than the delta variant. ‘Their condition is stable,’ he added.
Subramanian said while 13 samples that returned from the Union governmentâs testing laboratories had shown the S-gene dropout, eight tested positive for the Delta variant. Four samples had been labelled ânon-sequenceâ.
‘Till date, 22 people have recovered and returned home’, he said.