Omicron in community transmission stage in India: INSACOG
Amid rising cases of Covid-19 in India, the Central government on Sunday stated that Omicron is now in the community transmission stage that it has become dominant in multiple metros.
Omicron is now in the community transmission stage in India and has become dominant in multiple metros, the INSACOG has said in its latest bulletin.
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INSACOG (Indian SARS-CoV-2 Consortium on Genomics or Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genetics Consortium) is the forum set up under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
India on Sunday reported 3,33,533 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the active caseload to 21,87,205, informed the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Sunday.
While the daily positivity rate and weekly positivity rate stand at 17.78 percent and 16.87 percent, respectively. The active cases account for 5.57 percent of the total cases. With this India's tally of cases rises to 3,92,37,264.
The new infections were 4,171 less than that reported on Saturday. India had reported 3,37,704 new Covid-19 cases and the daily positivity rate stood at 17.22 percent on Saturday.
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