ILS Scientists Down With Covid, No New Omicron Data Available In Odisha; Says Public Health Director

At a time when the entire country has been grappling with the highly transmissible Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-1, the health department in Odisha on Thursday informed the State currently has no data on patients infected by the new strain.

Odisha Public Health Director, Dr Niranjan Mishra

At a time when the entire country has been grappling with the highly transmissible Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-1, the health department in Odisha on Thursday informed the State currently has no data on patients infected by the new strain.

Answering on the status of Omicron infected people (numbers) in the State so far, Public Health Director, Dr Niranjan Mishra said, “The scientists at ILS (Bhubaneswar) who carry out genome sequencing of collected samples have been infected with Covid. Therefore, we do not have any data on Omicron cases in the State at present.”