A health worker takes a swab sample of a passenger entering the city to test for COVID-19 at a railway station in Ahmedabad, India, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021. India on Thursday confirmed its first cases of the omicron coronavirus variant in two people and officials said one arrived from South Africa and the other had no travel history. A top medical expert urged people to get vaccinated. Photo: Ajit Solanki (AP)
India experienced likely the most horrific surge of the pandemic earlier this year from March to May, with case levels so high that millions of deaths are thought to have gone unreported. Since then, reported cases have remained low, but Omicron has been spotted in the country and there are early signs that it may be spreading faster than previous variants had as well.
