India Third Wave
India's third wave of Covid19 officially sets in as cases spike fuelled by Omicron
New Delhi: The third wave of Covid19 is officially here. India is reporting a surge in the number of cases and is clearly in the third wave, said a top health official as reports of positivity and symptoms among people in general overwhelm the official figures with everyone now knowing more than one close person who is hit by the pandemic fuelled by the spread of Omicron variant.
Dr N K Arora, the chairman of the COVID-19 working group of the NTAGI, has confirmed that India is experiencing the third wave of coronavirus cases with the new Omicron variant accounting for over 50% of the cases.
Arora said: “India is clearly in the third wave of Covid-19, and the whole thing seems driven by Omicron."
Meanwhile, Delhi's Health Minister Satyendar Jain has said the national capital might record 10,000 fresh COVID-19 cases on Wednesday.
He also told reporters that the third wave of the pandemic has set in.
In poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, political events are being cancelled by the parties. The Congress has cancelled its political rallies and events and reportedly UP Congress Committee has written to chief election commissioner Sushil Chandra to cancel big rallies and restrict BJP (read PM Modi and CM Yogi Adityanath) from inaugurations.
Reports said UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has cancelled a government function in Gautam Buddh Nagar district on Thursday.
India records high COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours:
India's daily case count witnessed yet another day of jump as 58,097 new COVID-19 cases were recorded in the past 24 hours, as per data released by the Ministry of Health on Wednesday.
The country had recorded 37,379 fresh cases on Tuesday. India also recorded 2,135 Omicron cases in the past 24 hours. India's active caseload currently stands at 2,14,004.
The country also registered 534 deaths due to the virus in the past 24 hours.
Active cases account for less than 1 percent of total cases. It currently stands at 0.61 percent. Recovery Rate currently stands at 98.01 percent.
In the past 24 hours, 15,389 people recovered from the deadly virus infection.
Daily positivity rate of the country now stands at 4.18 percent.
Mumbai on Tuesday witnessed a massive jump in COVID-19 cases with 10,860 fresh infections, which is 34 percent higher than Monday, when the tally was at 8,082.
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