No new variant of concern of coronavirus has been detected in India since Omicron in the first week of December 2021 according to the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium, the Lok Sabha was informed on July 29.
However, various Omicron sub-lineages are circulating across all States with the clinical presentation remaining largely the same, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar said in a written reply in the Lower House.
In reply to a question, she said Omicron and its sub-lineages are found to be associated with milder disease as evidenced by the relatively lower rates of hospitalizations reported by States and Union Territories.
