Coronavirus March 25 Latest News: Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar informed Parliament on Friday that few states and union territories have responded to the Centre’s requests to furnish details on Covid-19 mortalities due to oxygen shortage and as of now, none of them has reported confirmed deaths due to it.
Internationally speaking, Covid-19 Technical Lead at the World Health Organization, Maria Van Kerkhove, has said that the Omicron variant is sweeping the globe. She said Omicron is the latest variant of concern and about 86% of the sequences that are available for the last four weeks are this BA.2 sublineage. The rest are BA.1. The WHO has detected an increasing proportion of BA.2. However, Kerkhove added that the WHO is seeing a lower number of sequences being reported.
“It is absolutely critical that we have good surveillance worldwide, that we have strong testing and that we have intelligent sequencing with good geographic representation around the world,” Kerkhove said.
The Covid expert went on to stress that Omicron is a highly transmissible variant of concern. She informed that BA.2 is more transmissible than BA.1 and what WHO is starting to see in some regions of the world, in some countries, is an uptick in cases again.
“This is in the contect of omicron which is highly transmissible, but also in the context of lifting of public health and social measures. So whatever variant is circulating, if you lift all of the public health measures that we know can reduce the spread of this virus, the virus will take advantage of that,” Kerkhove said.
Here are some latest top updates on Covid-19 situation in India and around the world:
– Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday said over 1 crore children between the age group of 12-14 have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
– Kerala reported 543 new COVID-19 cases, 872 recoveries and zero deaths in the last 24 hours. Two deaths were not added due to lack of documents and 79 deaths were added as per the new guidelines of the central government. Death toll 67,631, active cases 4389: State Government
– As on March 21, a total of 181.24 crore doses of Covid vaccines were administered to beneficiaries above the age of 15, the government informed Parliament on Friday.
– Four girls between the age of 12 to 14 years, fell sick after they got vaccinated against Covid-19 at a health centre in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh, a health official said on Friday, as per PTI report. However, the condition of all of them is stable now, chief medical and health officer (CMHO) Dr Ashok Kumar Awdhiya said. According to PTI report, nearly 50 children in the 12-14 age group were administered vaccine doses at the Aamdara primary health centre on Thursday. Awadhiya said that four of them who are students of a local school, fell on the ground due to dizziness, triggered probably by fear.
– Delhi has provided first doses of the Covid vaccine to 100 per cent of its eligible population and 90 per cent of the people have received their second dose so far, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia told the Legislative Assembly on Friday.
– According to the official data provided by the Union Health Ministry on Friday, India’s total tally of infections has climbed to 4,30,16,372, while the count of active cases has declined to 21,530. The Covid death toll currently stands at 5,16,755 with 83 new daily fatalities being reported.
– The data on Friday showed that a reduction of 897 cases was recorded in the active Covid-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. The tally of active cases now comprises 0.05 per cent of the total infections, while the national recovery rate was recorded at 98.75 per cent.
– The cumulative number of doses administered in India so far under the nationwide Covid-19 vaccination drive has exceeded 182.55 crore.
– China, on Thursday, reported 1,366 confirmed cases of coronavirus, recording a decline of more than 600 cases from the day before. On the other hand, the asymptomatic cases in the country rose by close to 800 cases, going from 2,829 on Wednesday to 3,622 on Thursday.
– Maharashtra’s Thane recorded 14 new coronavirus cases which took the infection count to 7,08,723. On the other hand, Arunachal Pradesh did not report any new COVID-19 case on Friday, while the number of active cases in the state dipped to one.
