{"id":49934,"date":"2022-01-11T22:31:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T17:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/omicron-enters-jk-10-fresh-cases-detected-in-48-hrs\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T22:31:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T17:01:51","slug":"omicron-enters-jk-10-fresh-cases-detected-in-48-hrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=49934","title":{"rendered":"Omicron enters J&K: 10 fresh cases detected in 48 Hrs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

5 cases each reported in Kashmir, Jammu regions; tally at 13; 3 among 10 tourists go back; condition of two locals stable: Top Health officials<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Srinagar, Jan 11: <\/strong>Ten cases of Omicron were detected in J&K which includes three non-local travellers, taking the tally of total detected cases to 13 in J&K, officials said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A top health official told the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the first case of Omicron was detected in Kashmir on Monday while four more were detected today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that three among the five detected cases include three non-local travellers whose samples were taken in Anantnag and they have already returned back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An official told KNO that the person from Shopian and pregnant lady from Uri who were detected positive for Omicron are stable and have recovered as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Robust teams are working to trace contact of the two persons who have been tested positive for Omicron,” an official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that we are working to find out with whom people have met since a person tested positive for Covid-19 and later omicron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While giving details of cases, he said that three tourists whose samples were detected positive for Omicron include a 19-year -old male and 22-year-old female from Maharashtra and 40 year-old male from Gujarat and their samples were taken from 22 December and 26 December respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that a sample of a pregnant lady from Dhani Syden, Baramulla was taken on December 20, while details of a person from Shopian were sample was detected positive for omicron on Monday were not known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Shashi Sudan Principal GMC Jammu told KNO that five fresh cases of omicron were detected in Jammu division on Tuesday whose samples were taken in last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officials said that among one two belongs to Channi Himmat Jammu and one from Canal road Jammu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is pertinent to mention here that earlier three cases of Omicron were detected in Jammu including two women from Saraswati Vihar in Talab Tillo Bohri and a student of Kendriya Vidyalaya Bantalab, however, all three patients had already recovered\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5 cases each reported in Kashmir, Jammu regions; tally at 13; 3 among 10 tourists go back; condition of two locals stable: Top Health officials Srinagar, Jan 11: Ten cases of Omicron were detected in J&K which includes three non-local travellers, taking the tally of total detected cases to 13 in J&K, officials said on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-49934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory","tag-omicron-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}