India has announced its first two cases of the highly infectious Omicron Covid-19 variant, months after a devastating wave of the virus killed more than 200,000 people around the country.
The country has yet to impose new blanket international travel bans but on Monday the health ministry ordered all inbound travellers from "countries at-risk" to undergo mandatory post-arrival Covid testing, along with the random testing of other international arrivals.The nation's biggest city Mumbai on Wednesday imposed mandatory seven-day quarantines for all passengers arriving from at-risk countries.
But under-reporting is widespread and some studies have estimated India's true toll could be up to ten times higher.
Why the Muslim women in hijab? While positive were both hindu.
Why have you put Burqa wearing women in the picture as patients while hindu women as doctors?
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