State Health minister Mangal Pandey on Tuesday said in thelegislative councilthat the government was concerned about the Omicron variant of Covid-19 and all the RT-PCR laboratories have been put on alert. He said the state chief secretary and additional chief secretary of health department have inspected the IGIMS laboratories where genome sequencing will be done to identify different variants of Covid-19.
Pandey had earlier said in the House that 91% of the eligible Population in Bihar have been given the first dose of Covid-19 Vaccines and 80% of those whose date for the second dose had arrived have got themselves inoculated.