Andhra Pradesh Confirms Another Omicron Case, Tally Reaches 2

Andhra Pradesh reported its second case of COVID-19's Omicron variant. The State Health Department in a notice said that the variant was found in a 39-year-old woman of Kenya who come to Tirupati by car. She tested positive for COVID-19 at Tirupati, following which her sample was sent for genome sequencing to Hyderabad. The results came on December 22, taking the total Omicron tally in AP to two.