As the Omicron fear intensifies across India, a woman from Botswana has gone missing on arrival in Jabalpur district in Madhya Pradesh. The administration has launched a frantic search for the Botswana-origin woman across the district, after her disappearance. The woman had arrived from Botswana at Jabalpur’s Dumna airport on November 18 and has been untraceable since. The intense search has been launched due to the rising fears regarding the Omicron variant of COVID-19, which has been detected in Botswana, South Africa, and other countries. When we contacted that person, she denied having come to Jabalpur and said she was in the embassy at New Delhi.”The new COVID-19 variant B.1.1.529 has been named the Omicron variant by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Source: dna November 29, 2021 08:10 UTC