{"id":178320,"date":"2021-12-04T00:39:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T19:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=178320"},"modified":"2021-12-04T00:39:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T19:09:42","slug":"mizoram-to-issue-new-guidelines-on-omicron-covid-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/12\/04\/mizoram-to-issue-new-guidelines-on-omicron-covid-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"Mizoram to issue new guidelines on Omicron Covid variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aizawl, Dec 3 (PTI) The Mizoram government is likely to soon come out with new guidelines on tackling the new Omicron variant of coronavirus, a health department official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The state-level expert team on COVID-19 management has submitted draft guidelines to the government to screen and monitor people coming from abroad, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new regulations will also include suggestions on Covid appropriate behaviour for such travellers, the official, who is a member of the team, said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">India had on Thursday reported its first two cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 from Karnataka &#8211; in a South African national and a Bengaluru doctor with no travel history and both men fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The official said the new strain is still under study, and it will take at least two weeks to ascertain its nature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Omicron variant is believed to be more infectious than the Delta variant, as it has a significantly high number of mutations and spike protein, he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mizoram reported 275 fresh COVID-19 cases on Thursday, taking the state&#8217;s tally to 1,35,450. The death toll rose to 501 with one more fatality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aizawl, Dec 3 (PTI) The Mizoram government is likely to soon come out with new guidelines on tackling the new Omicron variant of coronavirus, a health department official said. The state-level expert team on COVID-19 management has submitted draft guidelines to the government to screen and monitor people coming from abroad, he said. The new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-178320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}