101 Omicron cases across 11 states in India, stay vigilant and avoid non-essential travel, mass gatherings: Health Ministry
There are 101 Omicron cases across 11 states in the country with daily COVID-19 cases below 10,000 for the past 20 days.
The Health Ministry people must remain vigilant in view of Omicron variant, rising cases in other countries and avoid non-essential travel, mass gatherings and observe low-intensity festivities.
“Omicron variant reported in 91 countries in the world. WHO has said that Omicron is spreading faster than the Delta variant in South Africa where Delta circulation was low. It’s likely Omicron will outpace Delta variant where community transmission occurs, WHO added,” said Lav Agrawal, Joint Secretary, Health Ministry.
The case positivity for the last 1 week was 0.65 per cent with Kerala contributing 40.31 per cent to the total number of active cases in the country, he added.
He further said that India is administering COVID19 vaccine doses at the highest rate in the world and the daily rate of doses administered is 4.8 times the rate of doses administered in the USA and 12.5 times the rate of doses administered in the UK.
