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What the impact of omicron. >> every time it transmits from a person to another person is another chance for the virus to mutate and change into something different. so being able to monitor it highlights the importance of testing, right? without a testing, you really have no baseline to understand whats going on. >> reporter: now, one of those so-called suspicious samples can wrap up sequencing and it turned out it was not the omicron variant. there are still six finishing up that process. the ...

Kerala, which is already making waves on the Covid front by recording more than 60 per cent of the daily new Covid cases in the country, is now waiting with bated breath for the results of three Covid positive samples sent for genomic sequencing.

Surge. >> it also comes as a list of states in the united states detecting the new omicron variant continues to grow. though health experts warn that the delta variant is still a major threat. lets go to cnns nadia romero joins us live. nadia, some of these numbers are trending in the wrong direction? >> absolutely, boris and christi, and people on the front lines of fighting this family are all pointing to the timing. this comes just after last weekend. holiday travelers for thanksgiving reache...

Carolina. >> 10,000 square feet of just covid testing. >> reporter: the sequencing samples taken in more than 40 states. >> 30,000 per day is how many were processing right now. thats about 100,000 or so per week. >> reporter: labs like this are key in detecting the omicron variant in the united states because of what they do after identifying a positive test. >> as of right now, were at the point where were sequencing every positive that we get. >> reporter: genomic sequencing complicated and e...

That library. >> reporter: the world health organization and the cdc declared omicron a variant of concern after it was flagged by scientists in south africa. a mutation in the omicron variant causes a peculiar test result called an s-gene dropout. >> n-gene is the blue curve and the then the s-gene. >> reporter: making a suspicious case easy to spot for expedited sequencing. >> we have about six samples that have that significant s-gene dropout. >> reporter: but sequencing is required to confir...

Domestic travel and international travel to those people who are vaccinated. i separate that from the unhelpful travel bans specifically targeting a lot of african countries actually not helpful policies. when it comes to the stuff here in the u.s. per the biden administration i would really like to see much more effort done on biosurveillance. what were dealing with is a consequence of not doing enough to find indicators and warnings. we need to majorly improve our surveillance capacity. even d...

Two passengers, who arrived at the Tiruchirapalli airport and Chennai airport from Singapore and the UK have tested Covid positive

Union Health Minister Manuskh Mandaviya said on Friday that RT-PCR tests have been done of 16,000 passengers from at risk countries and 18 samples have been sent for genome sequencing to determine if they have Omicron variant of the virus or not.

After two cases of Omicron variants were found in Karnataka, four members of a family which came to Jaipur from South Africa tested positive for Corona and their samples have been sent for genome sequencing.

Amid the threat of new Covid variant Omicron, the Health Ministry on Friday reiterated that the samples of those test positive must be sent to the laboratories tagged to the state and UTs in the INSACOG network.