Active cases now comprise 0.01 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has increased to 98.81 per cent, according to the health ministry website.
Poonawalla said the investments made in India in terms of testing, healthcare workers, hospital beds and vaccine capacity during the previous round of infections will help the country combat any future waves.
Some experts believe the BF.7 strain, which has originated from the BA.5 variant of Omicron, may not pose a significant threat to India and the likelihood of XBB causing more Covid infections could be higher.
Scientists worldwide have been researching hybrid immunity to learn more about the phenomenon. Early investigations discovered that serum samples from vaccinated individuals who had been infected with SARS-CoV-2 fought off the virus better than samples from those who were vaccinated, but had never been infected.
The data was based on an analysis of more than 2,000 genomes by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the WHO said.
Many mutations are being reported in Omicron, but as of now, there is no indication that these newer subvariants will cause something adverse in India. One just has to be careful and follow Covid appropriate behaviour as long as the virus is circulating: INSACOG official
National, provincial and private health-care authorities in the country have provided nearly 1,000 genetic sequences from infected patients to GISAID in the past five days, said chief executive officer Peter Bogner. So far, all the samples continue to be omicron, though subvariants that have hit other parts of the world including XBB.1 and BQ.1.1 have emerged, he said.
After two years of the mayhem, 2022 largely had been easy for people in Delhi as daily cases, positivity rate, death count and hospital admission figures, have all come down significantly by the end of the year.
AI-based machine learning (ML) approach shall pave an effective way to find solutions to such a burgeoning global menace as it is dependent on numerous dependent and interdependent factors and systemic issues that could be beyond human comprehension. An increasing need to apply ML techniques to accurately predict is felt.
The Epidemiology Division of the Public Health Laboratory Department has recently detected the low-frequency presence of two new Omicron subvariants: XBB.1 and DL.1
With the virus now able to circulate among nearly one-fifth of the world's population almost all of whom lack immunity from previous infection and many of whom remain unvaccinated, other nations and experts fear China will become fertile ground for new variants.
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