Covid-19: Delhi reports first Omicron case as India vaccinates 50% adults

Experts have said that the Omicron situation will become clearer by the end of this year

Seventeen more people tested positive for the Omicron variant of novel coronavirus in India on Sunday, taking the tally to 21. While Delhi reported its first case of Omicron infection, nine people, including four members of a family, were found infected with the variant in Rajasthan and seven others in Maharashtra.

This came a day after the Centre’s Har Ghar Dastak (door-to-door) vaccination campaign registered yet another milestone as over 10 million doses of the Covid vaccine were administered on a single day on Saturday -- the sixth time so far. The fully vaccinated adult population in the country has