India reports 1,150 new COVID cases with 83 fatalities in a day
India | April 09, 2022 9:37 ISTThe total active cases of COVID in India have declined to 11,365 the ministry data showed today.
The total active cases of COVID in India have declined to 11,365 the ministry data showed today.
The total active cases of COVID in India have declined to 11,492 health ministry data showed today.
IMA COVID task force co-chairman Jayadevan said that the XE variant is the combination of BA.1 and BA.2 where X stands for Recombinant Type and E is the sequence of its discovery. Mutation and recombination are techniques used by viruses to become fitter.
'XE' is a mutant hybrid of the two previous versions of the Omicron variant, BA.1 and BA.2, which spread across the world. It was first detected from the UK on January 19. Know symptoms of new Covid variant and if vaccines are effective against it.
The total active cases of COVID in India have declined to 11,639 the health ministry data showed today.
The individual who had tested positive for is a fully vaccinated 50-year-old women with no comorbidity and asymptomatic. She had come from South Africa on February 10 and had no prior travel history.
One patient has been found affected by 'XE' variant and another is affected by the 'Kapa' variant of Covid-19, Greater Mumbai Municipal Corporation said.
About 1.8 per cent of children infected with Omicron were hospitalised, compared to 3.3 per cent with Delta. The severe clinical outcomes ranged from a 16 per cent lower risk for emergency room visits to 85 per cent less risk for mechanical ventilation.
According to WHO, the new variant is 10 per cent more transmissible than the BA.2 subvariant, which makes it most contagious. However, the global health body noted there were "significant differences in transmission and disease characteristics, including severity".
The XE recombinant (BA.1-BA.2), was first detected in the United Kingdom on January 19 and less than 600 sequences have been reported.
The BA.2 variant represented 54.9 per cent of new COVID cases for the week ending March 26, according to CDC data.
The total active cases of COVID in India have declined to 16,187 the health ministry data showed today.
BA.2 Omicron subvariant is already dominant in the WHO's Americas region and its share of cases has been steadily increasing in several countries of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East since the end of 2021, WHO said.
The total active cases of COVID in India have declined to 22,427 the health ministry data showed today.
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At the height of the Omicron surge, the United States hit an all-time record of well over a million new infections every day.
WHO’s Maria Van Kerkhove stated that a lot of misleading information regarding the virus is circulating. It states that the infection of Omicron is mild. Not only this but many are thinking that the COVID pandemic is over. Apart from this, there is a huge confusion as people are thinking that this is the last variant that we will have to deal with. Well, all of this is actually not true!
With the outbreak of Omicron variant in the region, people in the country are facing difficulty in getting tested and getting quarantine. Medical supplies may also face shortage at many health facilities as only 3 day stock is left at many places such as Jilin, Shenzhen, others according to reports.
The COVID-19 tally in Thane district of Maharashtra rose to 7,08,651 with an addition of eight more cases, while no fresh death linked to the infection was reported, an official said on Friday.
The yet-to-be peer-reviewed study, posted recently on the preprint repository bioRxiv, also found neutralising antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in one of the Omicron-infected deer, suggesting that, like humans, these animals can be reinfected with the virus.
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