CHENNAI : Tamil Nadu Minister for Medical and Family Welfare Ma Subramanian on Wednesday said that at least 104 international passengers have tested positive for the Coronavirus infections.
He further informed that, of them, eighty-two were detected with the 'S gene drop' variant of coronavirus. The samples of the 82 passengers have been sent to the Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), Bengaluru, for genome sequencing , the minister said. "All the 82 passengers are fine", he told reporters.
On test samples already sent to inStem, he said the department has received the results of 13 people who were tested, of which one was confirmed to have the 'Omicron' variant of the coronavirus, the 'delta' variant in