{"id":454393,"date":"2021-12-06T12:16:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T06:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=454393"},"modified":"2021-12-06T12:16:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T06:46:01","slug":"13-flyers-under-scanner-amid-new-variant-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/13-flyers-under-scanner-amid-new-variant-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"13 flyers under scanner amid new variant concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen international passengers who arrived in the city from \u201chigh risk\u201d countries are under observation at Delhi\u2019s Lok Nayak hospital as their samples await genome sequencing results to ascertain if they have been infected by the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Nine of the 13 have tested positive on either an RT-PCR or rapid antigen test. The results of four others are awaited. However, to confirm whether they have been infected with the new variant, their samples have been sent for genomic sequencing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will take another couple of days to get the results,\u201d said a doctor from the hospital, on condition of anonymity. India\u2019s genomic sequencing consortium INSACOG has asked all its labs to fast-track sequencing of samples from travellers, connecting airports to labs with smaller sequencers so that they do not need to wait for many samples before a cycle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen international passengers who arrived in the city from \u201chigh risk\u201d countries are under observation at Delhi\u2019s Lok Nayak hospital as their samples await genome sequencing results to ascertain if they have been infected by the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. Nine of the 13 have tested positive on either an RT-PCR or rapid antigen test. The results of four others are awaited. However, to confirm whether they have been infected with the new variant, their samples have been sent for genomic sequencing. \u201cIt will take another couple of days to get the results,\u201d said a doctor from the hospital, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}