Covid in India: India reported a slight drop in cases yesterday as the country registered 42,766 new cases in the last 24 hours. India’s active caseload currently stands at 4,55,033. Active cases are 1.48% of the total cases.
2,99,33,538 total recoveries across the country so far.
During the last 24 hours, 45,254 patients were cured.
The recovery rate has increased to 97.20 percent.
The weekly positivity rate remains below 5%, currently at 2.34%.
Daily positivity rate at 2.19%, less than 3% for 19 consecutive days.
Delta Plus and Kappa Version Concern
Ninety-nine cases of highly transmissible delta plus type coronavirus have been detected in Tripura through genome sequencing of samples, state officials said. This is the first reported case of the deadly and highly contagious form of COVID-19 in the Northeast.
After the first two cases of the delta plus variant were detected in Uttar Pradesh, the kappa strain of COVID-19 has now been identified in the state. As per the IANS report, a 66-year-old man who tested positive for Kappa variant in UP’s Sant Kabir Nagar has died.
The strain was detected after their sample was collected during routine genome sequencing exercise on June 13 and sent to CSIR’s Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi.
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