Mumbai’s Mayor orders quarantine for passengers coming from South Africa

As a new variant has approached, the city of Mumbai to be on a safer side will be keeping people in quarantine who will be visiting Mumbai from South Africa. The new variant has been named omicron which is said to be stronger than the earlier delta. This was declared by Mayor Kishori Pednekar on Saturday, she further gave directives to the authority that such people will be in quarantine then their sample will be collected then will be sent to genome sequencing. 

 

The directives came from the city’s Mayor Kishori Pednekar soon after she went through many announcements of banning flights from that of South Africa where the new variant is found to be. Before the announcement, the Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal had requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi that all flights coming from South Africa should be stopped.  

 

“This is a request to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stop flights from the countries which have been affected by the new variant of the Covid 19. As our country is slowly recovering from the two-year-long outbreak of the infection. No stone should be unturned in a way to prevent this one variant coming from other countries to enter India,” stated Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal. 

 

With this, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led central government will be reviewing the situation today in the country and look towards the pace of the vaccines in the country. As of now, the Government of India has not imposed a flight ban but has asked the states at their level to start screening for every international traveller especially coming from Africa for the new variant called omicron. As of now, India has not reported any case of omicron. 

 

 

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