Day by day covid-19 cases rises in country. Covid-19 fear start in India: Reports over 11,000 in single day. India today recorded 11,109 fresh Covid cases, taking the active infections beyond to 49,622. The daily India Covid-19 covid cases are the highest in 236 days, according to data by the Union health ministry.
The death count climbed to 5,31,064 with 29 deaths. While three deaths each were reported from Delhi and Rajasthan, two each were from Chhattisgarh and Punjab and one each from Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh ,Maharastra, Odisha, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh besides nine reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at 8 am stated.
Amid a gradual increase in the number of Covid cases, medical experts have said the virus’ new XBB.1.16 variant could be driving the surge. However, they maintained that there is no need to panic and people should follow Covid-appropriate behaviour and get their booster shots. Delhi and Mumbai reported 1,527 and 1,635 active COVID-19 cases as of Thursday respectively.
The COVID-19 positivity rate hit 27.77 per cent in Delhi, news agency PTI reported. Two COVID-related deaths were also reported in the national capital while no fatalities were reported in Mumbai. Meanwhile, there are reports of a new coronavirus subvariant causing a new symptom in children different from the spread of its parent Omicron.
Former convenor of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics Committee on Immunisation said that children are reporting symptoms like “itchy” conjunctivitis without pus but with sticky eyes apart from high fever and cough. The Omicron subvariant Arcturus or XBB.1.16 is causing a rise in cases in India as well as Singapore, the US, the UK, and Australia among other countries.
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