NEW DELHI: The national capital on Tuesday reported 24 new cases of Omicron variant of Covid-19.
With the addition of new cases, the total count of Omicron cases in Delhi stands at 54.
"The Delhi government has decided that now all the Covid-19 cases that will come up, all of them will undergo genome sequencing. For this we have made adequate arrangements," said Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain added.
Earlier in the day, the Union ministry of health and family welfare had said that India has a total of 200 cases of the new Omicron variant of coronavirus so far.
Looking at the rising tally of Omicron cases in the country, the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) in its latest bulletin dated December 13, published on Monday, said that public health measures and investigations are being conducted to look into the new variant.
(With inputs from ANI)