Corona New Variant: Once again an increase in new cases of corona is being seen in the country. 1300 new cases came on Thursday, which is the highest in daily cases of Kovid after 140 days. The number of people infected so far in the country has increased to 4,46,99,418. At the same time, the number of patients under treatment has increased to 7,605.
XBB.1.16 of COVID-19 is believed to be behind the increase in new cases. According to INSACOG data, a total of 349 samples of the XBB.1.16 variant have been detected so far. These variants have been found in nine states and union territories.
According to the Indian SARS-Cov-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) data, Maharashtra has the highest number of cases of this variant at 105, Telangana at 93, Karnataka at 61 and Gujarat at 54. Two samples of the XBB 1.16 variant were first spotted in January. In February, 140 samples of the XBB 1.16 variant were received. At the same time, 207 XBB 1.16 variant samples have been received so far in March.
health ministry statement
The Union Health Secretary said on Thursday that 94,000 new cases of Kovid have come in the world in one day. Still this global epidemic is not over as new cases are coming. 19% of the world’s cases are coming from USA, 12.6% from Russia and 1% of the world’s cases are coming from our country. Rajesh Bhushan said that the maximum number of cases are being reported in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan. I personally wrote to these states on 16th March asking what action they need to take.
What are experts saying?
On Wednesday, former director of AIIMS, Dr. Randeep Guleria while talking to news agency PTI said that new variants could be behind the increase in fresh cases of corona. However, unless it causes serious illness and death, there is no need to panic.
Guleria said that when the outbreak of Kovid started it was alpha, beta, gamma, delta and omicron Happened with the variant. In this way the virus kept changing. Fortunately, if we look at the last one year, such variants have come up which are sub-variants of Omicron itself. So the virus seems to have stabilized to some extent and is not changing as rapidly as in the past.
Prime Minister amid increasing cases of Corona Narendra Modi Had a high-level meeting on Wednesday. During this, Prime Minister Modi had given instructions to speed up genome sequencing. PM Modi had said that this would help in keeping an eye on the new variant and take timely action. He also emphasized that senior citizens and people suffering from other diseases should wear masks in crowded places.
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