A seven-year-old boy has tested positive for the Omicron variant of the coronavirus disease in West Bengal, becoming the state’s first patient of the new variant, the health department informed on Wednesday.
The boy, the official said, recently returned to Bengal from Abu Dhabi via Hyderabad. He is undergoing treatment at a local hospital in the Murshidabad district.
Meanwhile, West Bengal on Monday reported 418 new COVID-19 cases, 165 less than the previous day, with the tally rising to 16,23,609, a health department bulletin said. The death toll rose to 19,610 as 10 more people succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours, it said.
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