HYDERABAD: Telangana recorded five new cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 on Thursday, taking the total tally of cases in the state to 67.
Among the five new cases, one was a passenger who returned to the state from an ‘at-risk’ country, while three had arrived from non-risk countries over the last three days.
Four more patients were declared recovered on Thursday, taking the total count of recovered patients to 22.
Four samples collected from RT-PCR passengers at the Hyderabad airport were sent for genome sequencing and reports of another 20 previous samples are awaited.
Telangana saw a jump in Covid-19 cases with 280 new cases and one death being recorded on Thursday. The total number of active cases in the state is 3,563.
The GHMC recorded 67 new cases on Thursday (as against 110 a day ago).