Coronavirus Updates in India: India has 12,249 registered fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours ending at 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday. With this, the total number of active cases has exceeded 81,000, according to the latest data released by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
Daily coronavirus infections continued to rise in states across the country. Delhi recorded 1,383 new cases of Covid-19 with a positive rate of 7.22% and another death due to the viral disease in 24 hours, according to data released on Tuesday by the Ministry of Health. Meanwhile, Mumbai on Tuesday reported 1,781 Covid-19 cases and one death, bringing the total to 10,97,735 and the death toll to 19,586, a civil administration official said.
official said indian express BA.2.38, sub-option Omicron tension has become dominant strain in Mumbai and Pune. “We also recorded the presence Omicron sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5 among genome-sequencing samples, but they are still few,” said Dr. Rajesh Karyakarte, Maharashtra’s coordinator for genome sequencing. “At present, samples are testing positive for both BA.2 and BA.2.38.”
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