Nearly 30,000 travellers have been screened for Covid-19 at several airports in Maharashtra, where 10 people have tested positive for Omicron, the State’s Health Surveillance Officer said on Tuesday. Dr Pradeep Awate, the state’s health surveillance officer, said that the tally of Omicron cases in Maharashtra now stands at 20.

On Monday, two more people tested positive for Omicron, in Mumbai. The first two cases of the new variant of Covid-19 were reported in the country in Karnataka, followed by one in Gujarat’s Jamnagar and then another in Maharashtra’s Dombivli. On Sunday, seven cases were reported in Maharashtra’s Pune district, of which six belonged to the same family. In Jaipur, nine cases of the Omicron Coronavirus variant were confirmed.