Coronavirus Live Updates: Expert Panel Splits On COVID Booster Dose, Decision Deferred; All 9 Omicron patients asymptomatic in Rajasthan

Laboratories on Saturday said their recommendation was not for a national vaccination program as many more scientific experiments are needed to assess its impact.

In a bulletin issued on Saturday, the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Consortium on Genomics (INSACOG) said the mention of booster doses in its previous bulletin was merely a discussion about the potential role of additional doses of COVID-19 vaccines at higher levels. . risk population. Although some experts say that health workers, who were among the first to be vaccinated, immunocompromised and elderly may have reduced immunity against COVID-19 and a higher risk of contracting the virus, especially in view of the new variants. could. for the times of India report good.

In Rajasthan, nine people, including four members of the same family, were found infected with Omicron. Patients are admitted to Rajasthan University of Health Sciences (RUHS) Hospital, a dedicated COVID facility of the state government in Jaipur. CMHO Dr Narottam Sharma said that all the nine patients are asymptomatic. “We are taking the matter seriously and doing contact tracing and taking effective measures,” Sharma said.

Official sources told PTI that samples of three more patients have been taken, who have been found positive. coronavirus The genome has been sent for sequencing at the Genome Sequencing Facility developed at the Government SMS Medical College here. Among them is a woman who tested positive for the infection at the Jaipur airport on Monday.

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