Supreme Court rejects Satyendar Jain’s bail plea, asks him to surrender forthwith
Jain had sought extension of the bail in a money laundering case on medical grounds.
Holding a press conference and sharing details about the latest health bulletin on Monday Delhi Health Minister Satyender Jain said that the latest genome sequencing report shows the Omicron variant of coronavirus has been found in 84 per cent of the samples tested.
Adding further he informed that though there is a spike in new cases, the situation is under control as not many people are developing severe disease or require hospitalisation.
“As per genome sequencing reports of December 30-31 from three labs – at Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, Lok Nayak Hospital and National Centre for Disease Control – 84 per cent samples were infected with Omicron. Most of the cases are of Omicron,” he said in the Delhi Assembly.
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According to the health bulletin to be issued later on Monday, the capital has recorded around 4,000 new cases of coronavirus and the positivity rate has increased to 6.5 per cent, the minister said.
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