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Bengaluru, Nov 29 (PTI) Amid the Omicron variant of COVID-19 creating concern globally, Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar on Monday said the sample of one of the two persons who arrived in Bengaluru recently from South Africa is "different from the Delta variant".
The minister said he was not supposed to say anything officially as he was still in touch with the union health ministry and the Indian Council for Medical Research officials.
"There is a delta variant for the past nine months only, but you are saying that one of the samples is Omicron.
I cannot say aboutit officially.
I am in touch with the ICMR and central government officials," Sudhakar told reporters here.
The sample has been sent to ICMR, he said.