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TANA Health Seminar on Omicron Creates Awareness

TANA Conducted Webinar on *’Current State of COVID -19/OMICRON’* on Saturday, January 22nd, 2022.

Telugu Association of North America (TANA) presented a webinar to explore the most recent learnings on the virology and epidemiology of Omicron and what this means for the world as SARS-CoV-2 continues to evolve. The web session received a great response and appreciation from the TANA community.

The zoom session was live telecasted on Social Media* where 100’s of viewers keenly listened in to this highly informative Webinar Session.

Event host, Ram Thota, TANA Regional Coordinator, Northern California*, kicked off the event by welcoming all the participants to the webinar followed by introducing TANA President Anjaiah Chowdhary Lavu,and other members of TANA Leadership were present.

Tana President Anjaiah Chowdhary Lavu recognized Dr. Manjula Raguthu for her great service in educating TANA member’s on a much needed information session on ‘Current State of COVID -19/OMICRON’ . He thanked the organizers of the event for bringing this need of the hour event to the TANA community.

Past President Jay Talluri, Secretary Sateesh Vemuri and Community Services Coordinator Raja Kasukurthi participated in this event.

*Topics discussed in this event included*
*Information about molecular nature of the Omicron Variant*
*Current thinking of the Omicron strain*
*Recommendations on safe Travel, Masking & COVID Testing*
*CDC Quarantine Requirements*
*Vaccination & Booster Shots*
*The best ways to stay safe from Omicron and future variants*