Indian equity benchmarks are likely to start Wednesday's session on a negative note, amid concerns about increasing cases of the Omicron variant of COVID among investors globally. At 

am, Singapore Exchange (SGX) Nifty futures -an early indicator of the Nifty50 benchmark index -- were down 72.5 points or 0.4 percent at 17,802.5.

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