New Delhi: India reported 8,954 new cases of the Covid-19 in the last 24 hours as reported by the news agency ANI. While 267 people succumbed to the infection, 10,207 people recovered from the illness. The active caseload currently stood at 99,023.
Total recoveries so far in the country was 3,40,28,506 and the current recovery rate was at 98.36 percent.
According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the number of samples tested in the last 24 hours was 11,08,467.
The PIB stated that daily positivity rate was at 0.81 percent which was less than 2 percent for the last 58 days. Whereas weekly positivity rate was recorded at 0.84 percent which was less than 1 percent for the last 17 days.
The vaccination figures in the country rose by 80,98,716 and the cumulative inoculation figure of the country stood at 1,24,10,86,850.
Informing the Parliament on Tuesday Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandviya said that no cases of Covid-19 with Omicron variant has been detected so far in the country.
As reported by the Indian Express, the Maharashtra Government has tightened rules for international passengers arriving in the state. All the passengers arriving from ‘at risk countries’ will have to undergo a mandatory seven days institutional quarantine.
Domestic air passengers arriving in the state will also be required to produce a negative RT-PCR test report, irrespective of their vaccination status. The sample should be tested within 48 hours of arrival in the state.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has listed 11 countries as ‘at risk’ countries. Passengers arriving or in transit from these countries to India will be required to undergo testing at the airport and wait till the result. If the test returns positive, the patient would be sent to a separate isolation facility and the sample would be sent for genome sequencing. In case the result is negative, the person would be put under home quarantine for 7 days and again undergo testing on the 8th day, as laid down on the official website.
The countries classified as ‘at risk’ are all the countries of Europe and the United Kingdom, South Africa, Brazil, Botswana, China, Mauritius, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Israel.