-Madhvi Jha
According to the Union Health Ministry of India, India reported 18,815 new covid-19 cases on Friday. The Union Health Ministry of India has confirmed 15,899 recoveries pushing the total recoveries to 4,29,37,876 crore.
In the last 24 hours, India also reported 38 deaths taking the country’s toll to 5,25,343 lakh with a mortality rate of 1.21 per cent. At the same time, the active caseload stood at 1,22,335. Although on July 7, there were 1,19,457 active cases of covid-19.
The active cases comprise 0.28 per cent of the total infections. Furthermore, the current recovery rate in the country stands at 98.51 per cent and the daily positivity rate at 4.96 per cent.
The health ministry said on Friday that as many as 3,79,470 tests were conducted on Thursday taking the total cumulative tests undertaken so far in the country to 86,57,23,159 crore.
Meanwhile, the national capital, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra has seen a massive spike in Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours. Delhi reported 579 cases of Covid-19 on Thursday, West Bengal reported 2,352 new covid-19 cases and Tamil Nadu reported 2,765 new cases. However, Maharashtra reported 2,678 new cases of Covid-19, including 30 cases of the new sub-variant BA.2.75.
New Sub-Variant of Covid-19 Detected in India
On Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed new covid-19 sub-variant BA.2.75 of the Omicron variant, which has been detected in India. In addition, BA.4 and BA.5 are driving waves in other countries like Europe and America.
“On Covid-19, globally reported cases have increased nearly 30 per cent over the last two weeks. Four out of six of the WHO sub-regions saw cases increase in the last week,” the news agency PTI qouted, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Vaccination In India
Moreover, as of now, India has administered 1,98,51,77,962 crore vaccine doses, and for the age group 12-14 years, over 3.72 crore 1st dose vaccines have been administered.
