NE NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, NOV 30
The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday extended the existing COVID-19 restrictions and relaxations in the state till December 15. The state has also allowed inter-state public transport between Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Earlier on Monday, the Tamil Nadu government has said that no case of the latest variant of Covid-19, ‘Omicron’, has been detected in the state so far and insisted that surveillance has been stepped up across the airports to prevent its spread here.
The release said that incoming travelers from South Africa, where Omicron was first detected, and European countries, including the UK, Botswana, China and Israel, should compulsorily undergo the RT-PCR test and that they would be allowed to go home only if tested negative for the virus.
“Omicron mutated corona has not been detected in Tamil Nadu so far,” it said. Meanwhile, Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Ma Subramanian said that in the wake of the emergence of the Omicron variant, ‘cluster areas’ were being monitored closely and samples being made to undergo Whole Genome Sequencing.
All these tests have only returned Delta variant cases, he told reporters here.
