The UK Health Security Agency said on Sunday that 12 people in Britain had died with the Omicron variant and 104 were currently in hospital with it
Quad countries have pledged to donate more than 1.2 billion vaccine doses globally
The number of active cases currently in the state is 955
Johnson told reporters that the government won't hesitate to introduce tougher lockdown measures
The new cases took the state's tally to 139,488
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Buffer stocks of medicine and oxygen have been prepared to mitigate any crisis and 48,000 ventilators have been distributed to states, the minister said
Kejriwal appealed to public not to let their guard down and start wearing masks to arrest the spread of the virus
The total number of cases reported till date in the state is 2,740,411
With the new cases, Chhattisgarh's tally reached 1,007,412
With the fresh Covid cases, Delhi's tally has increased to 1,442,288
'Boosters are certainly in order for the elderly, those health care workers who were vaccinated early on and the immunocompromised', said Menon
The number of active cases in Gujarat now stands at 577
Madhya Pradesh is now left with 183 active cases
This is the third Omicron case in Vadodara
Delhi has reported 24 cases of the Omicron variant so far and 12 of them have been discharged so far
"it's not impossible to have confection of two strains, especially if the patient has an immuno-compromised status", Dr Dipu T.S said
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the variant, known to escape vaccine immunity, has spread to about 90 countries
The death toll due to Covid stands at 25,101