Joint Secretary, Health, Luv Agrawal, mentioned that new Covid circumstances are being reported beneath 10,000 for the previous 20 days. The case positivity for the final 1 week was 0.65 per cent. Currently, Kerala contributes 40.31 per cent to the total variety of lively circumstances within the nation, he mentioned.
India is administering Covid-19 vaccine doses on the highest price on the earth and the every day price of doses administered is 4.8 instances the speed of doses administered within the US and 12.5 instances the speed of doses administered within the UK, he mentioned.
On new Covid variant, he mentioned {that a} total of 101 Omicron circumstances throughout 11 states have been reported to this point.
“There is no evidence to suggest that vaccines are not effective against Omicron variant,” he mentioned, including that it’s seemingly that Omicron will outpace Delta variant the place neighborhood transmission happens as per a WHO report.
NITI Aayog’s Member, Health, Dr V.Okay. Paul mentioned: “A new phase of the Covid-19 pandemic is being experienced in Europe with a steep rise in cases.”
About genome sequencing, he mentioned that sequencing of each pattern is just not doable.
“It is a surveillance and pandemic assessment and tracking tool, not a diagnostic tool as of now.”
Source: IANS
