“Private and government laboratories send all positive Covid samples to the Department of Microbiology at King George Medical University (KGMU) for total genome sequencing,” the directive states.
According to an order issued by the state government, mask wearing is mandatory for all other people in crowded places.
The directive issued through the Secretary of State sent to all divisional commissioners, district magistrates, leading medical officers, and other state fitness officers. The state government directive that has been issued is in accordance with the directives issued through the Center.
The state government orders that extra states that incorporated Covid command centers will have to be activated, surveillance groups activated, immediate reaction groups sensitized and “nigrani samiti” trained at the district level.
In addition, immediate reaction groups will need to make a stopover at the homes of Covid patients within 24 hours of positive sample control. In hospitals across the state, doctors and paramedics want to be sensitized. In addition, the availability of equipment, medicines and manpower will also have to be controlled in hospitals.
Uttar Pradesh reported 188 new cases in the last 24 hours on Saturday. The number of active cases of Covid-19 infection in Uttar Pradesh is 1025. Of the new cases, 52 were reported in Gautam Budh Nagar, while 27 were recorded in its neighbouring district. of Ghaziabad. La state capital, Lucknow, recorded 26 new cases, while 10 new cases were shown in Varanasi.
Since the outbreak, Uttar Pradesh has recorded 21. 29 lakh of covid and 23 651 similar deaths.
The Haryana government has also made the wearing of masks mandatory in public places. “It is hinted that at an assembly held under the chairmanship of the Honorable Minister of Health, Haryana on 03. 04. 2023, it was noted that there is a significant building. increased in the number of COVID cases with a COVID-19 positivity infection rate increasing in the state of Haryana in recent weeks,” the Haryana Department of Health said.
The extra adds that this was a decision made as a precautionary measure against any other imaginable outbreak of COVID-19. “He made the decision that the general public should wear masks in all public places, where there is a collection of more than a hundred people, government offices, purchase of groceries in shopping centers, etc. is mandatory,” it reads.
According to the new study, the XBB. 1. 16 Omicron variant is causing the COVID-19 outbreak in India and will also spread internationally in the near future, it has an effective replica number (Re) 1. 27 and 1. 17 times higher than XBB. 1 and XBB. 1. 5 respectively, suggesting that XBB. 1. 16 will spread internationally in the near future.
“In late March 2023, XBB. 1. 16, an XBB subvariant of SARS-CoV-2 omicron, gave the impression and was detected in countries. Compared to XBB. 1. 5, XBB. 1. 16 has two substitutions in the S protein: E180V is in the N-terminal domain and T478K in the receptor binding domain (RBD). We first showed that XBB. 1. 16 had an effective replication number (Re) that was 1. 27 and 1. 17 times higher than parents XBB. 1 and XBB. 1. 5, respectively, suggesting that XBB. 1. 16 will spread internationally in the near future,” the study says.
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India has recorded 6155 new covid-19 infections in the last 24 hours. The active count peaked at 31,194. According to information from the Union Ministry of Health, the total number of covid-19 cases in India is 4. 47 crore (4,47,51,259).
The death toll rose to 530,954 with 11 deaths, two of which were reconciled in Kerala, according to data updated at 8 a. m. With 31,194, active cases account for 0. 07% of total infections. The recovery rate from covid-19 nationwide stands at 98. 74%, according to the website of the Ministry of Health.
(With from agencies)
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