Covid: India logs 7,081 new cases, active cases decline to 83,913
India | December 19, 2021 9:41 ISTThe total active cases of COVID-19 in India have declined to 83,913, the ministry data showed today.
The total active cases of COVID-19 in India have declined to 83,913, the ministry data showed today.
The total active cases of COVID-19 in India have declined to 84,565 (lowest in 569 days), the ministry data showed today.
Earlier today, West Bengal reported its first case of Omicron in a 7-year old child detected in the Murshidabad district.
The number of active cases of the infection has declined to 88,993, the lowest in 563 days.
Cases of Omicron, which is categorised as a “variant of concern” by the World Health Organisation, have been detected in about 60 countries.
Both cases are of foreign nationals who entered India not long ago.
The number of active cases declined to 92,281, the lowest in 560 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 3,41,14,331, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.37 percent.
The active cases have increased to 94,742 comprising 0.27 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.36 per cent, the highest since March 2020, the Health Ministry said.
The total active cases of COVID-19 in India have declined to 95,014 (lowest in 554 days), the ministry data showed today.
The total active cases of COVID-19 in India have declined to 98,416 (lowest in 552 days), the ministry data showed today.
Four states and the national capital have now reported cases of the potentially more contagious variant which has sparked a fresh alert across the world. The nine people who tested positive in Jaipur include four members of a family who returned from South Africa recently.
Three to four days ago, four students at a hostel in Kunjakanta area were detected with the disease, following which others there were tested, an official told journalists.
The 66-year-old Omicron patient, who is a South African traveller, left for Dubai on a flight seven days after testing positive
The 'at-risk' nations (updated on November 30) are countries in Europe, including the United Kingdom, South Africa, Brazil, Botswana, China, Mauritius, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Israel.
The total active cases of COVID-19 in India have declined to 1,00,543 (lowest in 546 days), the ministry data showed today.
One of his family members and a domestic help have also been found infected with the infection.
The B.1.1.529 Covid variant or Omicron, first detected in South Africa last week, was designated by the World Health Organisation as a “variant of concern”, the health body's top category for worrying coronavirus variants.
The vaccines used in India -- Covaxin and Covishield -- have been reported to work against previously identified mutants from within India and other countries.
Both have been sent to quarantine centres, and they will stay there till their test results confirm about the new variant.
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