At an assembly to review the state’s preparedness, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya asked them to step up genomics and conduct simulated exercises in hospitals, according to a government statement.
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A healthcare employee takes a control swab pattern from a child at an internal control center at a hospital in New Delhi, India, on Jan. 14, 2022. India is experiencing a backlog of COVID-19 cases. (REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis)
New cases have nearly tripled, from about 2,000 at the end of March.
The prevalence of XBB. 1. 16, classified as a variant of interest by the World Health Organization, rose from 21. 6% in February to 35. 8% in March, the health ministry said, adding that there is no evidence of accumulation of hospitalizations or deaths.
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Assets totaled more than 28,300 with 14 deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the official death toll from the disease to 530,943.
India has recorded more than 44. 7 million shown cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began 3 years ago, the third-highest count after the United States and China.