• About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Our Team
  • Advertising
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service
Friday, July 11, 2025
Lake City Times
No Result
View All Result
  • Top News
  • Region
  • City News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Health
  • Edit-Oped
  • Tourism
  • National
  • World
  • ePaper
  • Top News
  • Region
  • City News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Health
  • Edit-Oped
  • Tourism
  • National
  • World
  • ePaper
No Result
View All Result
Lake City News
No Result
View All Result
Home Top News

Most Omicron cases detected in JK recovered

Getting reports late hampers to track spread of variant: Experts

LCT Desk by LCT Desk
January 13, 2022
in Top News
Reading Time: 2min read
A A
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterWhatsappTelegram

Jahangeer Ganaie

Srinagar, Jan 12: Most of the Omicron cases detected in Jammu and Kashmir have already recovered from the disease.
Jammu and Kashmir has so far reported 13 cases of Omicron but reports of most of them were received when the infected persons had already recovered from the disease.
Top health officials who wished not to be named said, that getting the COVID-19 test results hamper our efforts to track the spread of Omicron.
They said that as of now samples of all positive patients are sent for genome sequencing, if their reports would come in day or two, it would have been easy to find contacts of the person in whose sample Omicron variant was detected.
“But we are getting reports of the Omicron after two or three weeks when patients are already recovered from the disease, it then becomes difficult to find contacts of the person found positive for new variant which is highly transmissible,” the officials said.
Experts believe that Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is four times more transmissible than Delta variant of the virus. In addition, it has a potential to infect persons who have recovered from an attack of COVID-19 and who have received one or two doses of the vaccine.
“This virus has a potential to evade immune system of the body, may be due to infection or vaccination. People who have this immunity due to infection or vaccine may be protected only from 30 to 60 percent when compared to Delta variant,” they said, adding that apart from higher transmissibility and evasion of immunity, the Omicron variant has shorter incubation period and infects selectively upper respiratory tract (nose and throat) rather than lungs.
The experts said that most of the persons whose samples were found positive for Omicron had no travel history which means it is in our community so setting up of genome sequencing labs is of utmost importance.
Meanwhile, 13 cases of Omicron have been detected in J-K and among them five were detected in Kashmir which includes three travelers, one pregnant lady and other patient from Shopian.
Among the eight positive cases, three patients were detected in last month who had already recovered when their reports came. The five cases reported on Tuesday include a 40-year-old couple from Channi Himmat, who had returned from Canada on December 24 and were tested for the virus and are admitted in the DRDO hospital, 32-year-old woman from Trikuta Nagar 42-year-old man from Channi and 18-year-old boy from Canal Road. They were sampled randomly on December 21, 22 and 24 respectively.
Officials said that Trikuta Nagar and Channi patients are in home isolation while Canal Road boy has been discharged from DRDO hospital and all are stable.

READ ALSO

Dangerous narratives threatening peace, harmony in J&K should be stopped: Lt Governor

Post Operation Sindoor, demand for ‘Make in India’ weapons increases

Related Posts

Top News

Dangerous narratives threatening peace, harmony in J&K should be stopped: Lt Governor

July 11, 2025
Post Operation Sindoor, demand for ‘Make in India’ weapons increases

Srinagar, Jul 10: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Thursday inaugurated 'Bharat Sanrachna J&K 2025' exhibition and public outreach initiative at Srinagar....

Read more
by LCT Desk
0 Comments
Top News

Post Operation Sindoor, demand for ‘Make in India’ weapons increases

July 11, 2025
Post Operation Sindoor, demand for ‘Make in India’ weapons increases

Rehan Qayoom Mir Srinagar, Jul 10: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Thursday said that the demand for indigenous defence equipment...

Read more
by LCT Desk
0 Comments
Top News

Mutual tourism growth possible between J&K, West Bengal: CM

July 11, 2025
Mutual tourism growth possible between J&K, West Bengal: CM

Kolkata, Jul 10: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Thursday inaugurated the Travel & Tourism Fair, TTF Kolkata-2025, India’s...

Read more
by LCT Desk
0 Comments
Top News

J&K’s four Rajya Sabha seats vacant since 2021

July 11, 2025
Hectic lobbying for Rajya Sabha berths in J&K

Srinagar, Jul 10: Jammu & Kashmir has been without representation in the Rajya Sabha for over four and a half...

Read more
by LCT Desk
0 Comments
Politics

Dy CM blames PDP for current situation in J&K

July 11, 2025
Dy CM blames PDP for current situation in J&K

Srinagar, Jul 10: Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Choudhary on Wednesday said that Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is responsible for the...

Read more
by LCT Desk
0 Comments
Top News

Amarnath Yatra: Over 1.45 lakh perform darshan so far

July 11, 2025
Amarnath Yatra completes one month

Srinagar, Jul 10: Undeterred by intermittent downpours in the valley, thousands of devotees continue their pilgrimage to the holy cave...

Read more
by LCT Desk
0 Comments
Next Post
Coronavirus: 5 patients die, 1086 test positive in JK

Coronavirus: Spurt continues, JK reports 1695 new cases

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Our Team
  • Advertising
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service

© 2021 Lake City Times - Premium theme by GITS.

No Result
View All Result
  • Top News
  • Region
  • City News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Health
  • Edit-Oped
  • Tourism
  • National
  • World
  • ePaper

© 2021 Lake City Times - Premium theme by GITS.