Dr. NK Arora, Chairman of the National Technical Advisory Group on Vaccination (NTAGI), COVID-19 Working Group, has said that the cases of Omicron variants in the daily cases of corona virus in major cities of India are more than 50 percent. and the sharp rise in cases over the past week points to a third wave of the global pandemic, as is being seen in many other countries.
Arora told news agency PTI that cases of Omicron have been found in most states of the country. New variants of the virus account for more than 50 percent of the daily cases in major cities and adjoining areas, he said. Arora said that the sharp increase in the cases of COVID-19 in the last one week indicates the third wave, which is also being seen in many other countries of the world.
no need to panic people
However, he emphasized that there is no need for people to panic. Arora said that more than 80 per cent people in the country have been naturally infected with the virus, more than 90 per cent adults have had at least one corona vaccine and 65 per cent have been fully vaccinated.
He said that the wave of Omicron spread rapidly in two weeks in South Africa and if we look at the wave of infection there, the number of cases has started decreasing and most of the people have no symptoms or mild symptoms.
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Arora said that all these factors indicate that the Omicron wave is likely to weaken in South Africa. He said there are some similarities between South Africa and India with respect to epidemiology. The natural rate of infection is high in both the countries, but the vaccination rate in India is many times higher.
Arora said that in view of this, we may see a largely similar third wave in India. After looking at the nature of Covid infection in India in the last seven to 10 days, I think we will soon reach the peak of the third wave.
So far 1,892 cases of Omicron have come to the fore.
So far 1,892 cases of Omicron, a new variant of corona virus, have been reported from 23 states and union territories of the country, out of which 766 people have become infection free or have gone abroad. According to the data released by the Union Health Ministry on Tuesday, Maharashtra has the highest number of 568 cases of the new variant. After this 382 cases have been reported in Delhi, 185 in Kerala, 174 in Rajasthan, 152 in Gujarat and 121 in Tamil Nadu.
According to the data released by the Ministry of Health at eight in the morning, after 37,379 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in India in a day, the number of infected in the country has increased to 3,49,60,261 while the number of active patients. has increased to 1,71,830.
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