New Delhi: The Health ministry informed on Friday that as many as 101 cases of Omicron variant of Covid-19 so far have been detected across 11 States and Union Territories. Addressing a press conference, Joint Secretary of Health Ministry, Lav Agarwal said that 32 cases were reported in Maharashtra, 22 in Delhi, 17 in Rajasthan, 8 each in Karnataka and Telangana, 5 each in Gujarat and Kerala, one each in Andhra Pradesh, Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal respectively.
Agarwal said that the Omicron variant has been found in 91 countries in the world. ‘World Health Organisation (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’, he said.
He further informed that Kerala contributes 40.31% to the total number of active cases in the country. ‘New daily cases were recorded below 10,000 for the past 20 days. The case positivity for the last one week was 0.65 per cent. Currently, Kerala contributes 40.31% to the total number of active cases in the country’, Agarwal added.
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The Health Department official also lauded the country’s Covid-19 vaccination drive and said that India is administering Covid 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.
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