Karnataka reports its third case of Omicron, tally increases to 36

Karnataka on Sunday December 12, 2021 reported its third case of the Omicron variant and the country’s tally has now increased to 36. Karnataka Health Minister Dr Sudhakar K informed that a 34-year-old returnee from South Africa has tested positive.

Karnataka on Sunday (December 12, 2021) reported its third case of the Omicron variant and the country’s tally has now increased to 36. Karnataka Health Minister Dr Sudhakar K informed that a 34-year-old returnee from South Africa of the two cases, one was a 66-year-old South African man who came to Bengaluru on November 20 and left India after testing negative.

The other was a 46-year-old man who is a doctor – an anaesthetist – at a hospital in Bengaluru and had tested positive on November 22. He had no travel history to South Africa or any other country. Earlier in the day, two fresh cases of Omicron were found in Andhra Pradesh and Chandigarh.

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In Chandigarh, a 20-year-old man from Italy tested positive, while in Andhra Pradesh, a 34-year old man from Ireland was diagnosed with the new variant in Visakhapatnam.

A private school in Karnataka took its students on a five-day trip to Hyderabad in blatant violation of the state government’s Covid-19 safety protocols. As many as 130 students and a few high school staff at Cluny Convent in Jalahalli, which is affiliated with the Karnataka State Council, left for Hyderabad on Thursday evening.

The trip goes against state government instructions that schools and colleges not hold any cultural and educational activities due to the emergence of Omicron and Covid clusters across the state. The Ministry of Education which intervened after parents who had not sent their children on the trip complained about it has now issued a notice to the school for violating Covid protocols and provisions of the National Disaster Management Act (NDMA).

In its defense, the school claimed that there was no mention of the relocation in the standard operating procedure issued by the ministry and that it had obtained parental consent forms for the relocation. According to parents, the school charged Rs 10,000 per student for the trip and made arrangements for hotel accommodation in Hyderabad.