Health Minister Jain said the death audit committee, which met on Wednesday, found that the fatalities have mostly occurred among those with comorbid conditions.
The total active cases of COVID in India have rose to 11,17,531 the ministry data showed today.
The study showed that the temperature of the air made no difference to viral infectivity, contradicting the widely-held belief that viral transmission is lower at high temperatures, the report said. "It means that if I'm meeting friends for lunch in a pub today, the primary (risk) is likely to be me transmitting it to my friends, or my friends transmitting it to me, rather than it being transmitted from someone on the other side of the room," said Reid.
A special camp was organised for administering booster shots to frontline workers of Delhi Police, the staffers working at its headquarters on Jai Singh Marg, senior official said.
"While Omicron causes less severe disease than Delta, it remains a dangerous virus, particularly for those who are unvaccinated," Tedros said during a media briefing on COVID.
The Health Ministry has also underlined that the active cases that needed hospitalisation care was 20-23 per cent during the second Covid surge. However, only 5 to 10 per cent of active cases require hospital administration currently, even as the overall situation is evolving, and the need for hospitalisation care could change. Experts say that lower hospitalisations and deaths could also be attributed to a wider vaccination coverage.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra continues to record the maximum Omicron cases followed by Rajasthan, Delhi, Karnataka, and Kerala. Also, several states have imposed restrictions and night curfew, to curb the spread of the infection.
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Wednesday's single-day count of 27,561 cases is the highest since April 30, 2021 when the city saw 27,047 infections.
At present, there are around 2.25 lakh active cases in the state. The state positivity rate is 21.4% and Mumbai's is 27%.
Covaxin ( BBV152) booster, India's indigenous vaccine, has shown that it can neutralize both Omicron and Delta variants of SARS-CoV-2, jab maker Bharat Biotech informed on Wednesday.
The number of new coronavirus infections in the last week jumped by about 55%, although the number of deaths remained stable, the World Health Organization said in its latest pandemic report.
While sharing that Delhi is likely to see around 25,000 cases on Wednesday, Jain underlined that positivity rate cannot determine whether cases have peaked or not.
In emerging and developing economies, growth is expected to drop from 6.3 per cent in 2021 to 4.6 per cent in 2022 and 4.4 per cent in 2023, the World Bank report stated.
Spotify, a Swedish music streaming giant has reportedly shut down its podcast studio and laid off some members of the team. Spotify declines to comment on the report.
The BJP headquarters in Delhi's Minto Road was fully sanitised after 50 staff were found Covid positive.
Some patients have very severe injury in the liver due to Covid. The most common are swelling in the liver, jaundice which means yellow discolouration of eyes and urine and derailment of liver function tests.
The WHO Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Vaccine Composition (TAG-CO-VAC) said that as coronavirus evolves, the composition of current COVID-19 vaccines may need to be updated.
Kanpur DM Vishak Iyer said, "With the number of active COVID cases crossing 1000 mark in Kanpur on Tuesday, the district administration has imposed fresh restrictions."
The total active cases of COVID in India have rose to 9,55,319 the health ministry data showed today.
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