Top 10 Omicron updates: Variant’s impact to be less severe on India’s economy, says finance ministry

Here are the latest updates about the new coronavirus variant.

The Omicron variant of Covid-19 may pose “a fresh risk” to global recovery but its impact would be “less severe” for India due to the increasing pace of vaccination in the country, a finance ministry report said on Saturday, reported the Hindustan Times. In its monthly economic review for November, the ministry said that India’s economic recovery is expected to gain further strength in the remaining two quarters of the current financial year.The Indian Council of Medical Research in Assam’s Dibrugarh district has designed a testing kit that will be able to detect the Omicron variant in a couple of hours, ANI reported. Currently, It takes three to four days time to detect the variant with the help of kits available in the market.The Union health ministry asked states to keep a strict watch in 27 districts that have Covid-19 test positivity rates of 5% and above, reported the Hindustan Times. The Supreme Court in Brazil has ruled that foreign visitors will need to provide a coronavirus vaccination certificate to enter the country, reported BBC. The court said it would be impossible to check all visitors and prevent the spread of the Omicron variant. People aged 30 and above in England will now be able to get Covid-19…

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