Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Dec.21: The Union Health Ministry announced today that the number of cases of Covid’s fast-spreading strain Omicron has surpassed 200 in India.
According to the ministry, 77 patients have recovered.
The states with the most cases of the new variety are Maharashtra and Delhi, with 54 instances each. Telangana has the most cases (20), followed by Karnataka (19), Rajasthan (18), Kerala (15), and Gujarat (14).
Meanwhile, India logged 5,326 cases of Covid infections in the last 24 hours, the lowest daily case count in 581 days, according to the ministry’s data released on Tuesday. Covid instances have already been detected in 3.48 crore people across the country. According to the bulletin, the country today has 79,097 active cases, the lowest number in 574 days.
The highly transmissible Omicron strain of Covid has raised alarms and reminded memories of the disastrous second wave of the epidemic, which brought the country’s health infrastructure to its knees.
Delhi, which was among the hardest hit in the second wave, recorded 107 cases on Sunday, breaking the 100-case barrier for the first time in six months and requiring a disaster management conference.
In the meantime, the Omicron strain is causing an alarming increase in cases all around the world.
According to the most recent figures, the new variant now accounts for 73% of all sequenced Covid cases in the United States, up from roughly 3% last week.
The delta variation, which was the prevalent strain of the virus in the United States until last week, has now dropped to about 27% of sequenced cases.
Omicron is spreading quicker than the Delta variant, according to the WHO, and is producing infections in persons who have already been vaccinated or who have recovered from Covid.