New Delhi: Three new cases of Omicron were reported in India on Monday- one in Gujarat and two in Maharashtra , taking the total tally of the new coronavirus variant in the country to 41.A 42-year-old man from Gujarat who recently returned from South Africa tested positive for the Omicron variant of coronavirus yesterday.The man had first tested negative for coronavirus when he arrived in Delhi from South Africa via Kenya and Abu Dhabi on December 3. In his second test on December 4 also, the man tested negative for Covid after which he was briefly hospitalised for isolation. He then tested positive for Covid- with Omicron variant- on December 8, authorities informed.The man's sample has been sent for genome sequencing.Currently, the man is under treatment in home isolation and all the relatives as well as his four co-passengers have tested negative for Covid.Yesterday, Maharashtra also reported two new cases of Omicron variant, with both the patients having Dubai travel history. The two cases have been reported from Latur and Pune, as per a report released by the National Institute of Virology.With this the total cases of the variant in India has reached 41. Till now, Omicron has been detected in Maharashtra (20), Rajasthan (9), Gujarat (4), Karnataka (3) and Andhra Pradesh (1) and in Union Territories of Delhi (2) and Chandigarh (1) and Kerala (1).The government has warned against laxity in following Covid-related protocols, urging people to not delay vaccination.India's Covid tally yesterday rose to 3,46,97,860 with 7,350 people testing positive for the infection in a day, while the number of active cases declined to 91,456, the lowest in 561 days, the Union Health Ministry's data showed.The Omicron variant, which was first detected in South Africa, has spread to several parts of the globe with one death being reported in UK where the variant is fast spreading. Authorities worldwide are racing to determine how contagious the variant is and how effective existing vaccines are against it.