Within the last 24 hours, 82 new covid cases have popped up all across India. The Union Health Ministry of India shared on Monday that while the active cases within our country have declined by 1,837, the total number of instances of covid has reached the 44 million mark. So far, there have been 530,753 deaths due to covid on record since 2020.
In the southern half of India, the state of Karnataka reported 137 active cases, while Kerala has heard of 1,243 active cases within itself. The state of Maharashtra has 85 active cases, Odisha 86, and Tamilnadu 47. Coming to the Northern areas, the states of Rajasthan have 6 active covid cases, Uttar Pradesh has 14, and West Bengal has 35 cases thus far.
So far, 4,41,51,610 People have managed to recover from this virus, with the current recovery rate nearing the 99% mark. The daily positive rate for India is 0.14%, and the weekly positive rate is 0.09%.
With the rapid decline in the number of covid cases within the country, scientists and now beginning to assume that omicron and its subsequent iterations would not be affecting India on the massive scale that it had 3 years earlier, given that the majority of the population has already been exposed to the virus and has been vaccinated. Scientists state that people within India have developed a hybrid immunity of sorts due to the constant exposure to the infection and the vaccination itself. They do, however, suggest that people should wear masks and crowded places and quickly complete their vaccination doses if they have not been done as yet.
Currently, out of all the cases that have been reported recently, a bulk of them have been reported within China and other countries; because of this, the central government has proceeded to tighten the covid preparedness measures. The government has directed the INSACOG under the supervision of the DBT (the Department of Biotechnology). They have been instructed to keep a watchful eye on the covid situation within the country and to continue the constant sequencing of the genome to track any new variant that could pose a potential risk.
