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India on Thursday morning reported 67,084 new Coronavirus infections, 1,67,882 recoveries and 1,241 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the official data provided by the Union Health Ministry. The Ministry further informed that the active cases in the country declined to 7,90,789. The active cases constitute 1.86 per cent of total infections, while the national Covid recovery rate has improved to 96.95 per cent.In global Covid updates, the WHO Covid-19 Technical Lead Maria Van Kerkhov has said that Omicron is not the last variant of Covid-19 to be detected and that the possibility of new variants emerging is really high. In fact, Kerkhov said that the WHO is tracking four different versions of Omicron. In a question answer session, kerkhov said, “We know a lot about this virus, but we don’t know everything. And quite frankly, the variants are the wild card. So we are tracking this virus in real time as it mutates as it changesBut this virus has a lot of room to move.”
According to a PTI report, WHO’s weekly epidemiological report states that the Omicron variant is increasingly dominant – making up nearly 97 per cent of all cases. On the other hand, the WHO has also come up with some good news. The health agency has said that the Coronavirus case count fell 17 per cent worldwide over the last week compared to the previous week while deaths globally declined 7 per cent. In India, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Wednesday announced that more than one crore youngsters between the age bracket of 15 to 18 years have been fully vaccinated against the Coronavirus. The Health Ministry informed that the cumulative vaccine doses administered in the country crossed 171 crore on Wednesday. Over 44 lakh vaccine doses were administered till 7 pm on Wednesday. More than 1.60 crore precaution doses have been administered so far to healthcare workers, frontline workers and those aged 60 and above with comorbidities.
