Coronavirus India LIVE Updates, Coronavirus Cases Today, COVID 19 Cases In India, Omicron Covid Cases, India Covid Cases 20 January 2022
Covid-19 Cases India: The country has recorded 8,891 cases of the Omicron variant so far.
New Delhi:
India’s Covid curve showed marginal improvement on Tuesday as the country recorded 2,38,018 new cases — 7 per cent lower than Monday’s reported 2.58 lakh daily cases, according to the Health Ministry.
310 people have died due to Covid during the same period, taking the total death count in the country due to the infection to 486,761.
The country’s caseload currently stands at 3.75 crore. This includes 8,891 cases of the Omicron variant. The active cases now comprise 4.62 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has decreased to 94.09 per cent.
Meanwhile, the cumulative vaccination coverage across the country crossed 158 crore doses on Tuesday.
Here are the LIVE Updates on coronavirus cases in India:
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Bill And Melinda Gates’ Foundation Pledges $150 Million In Covid FightThe Gates Foundation and British biomedical charity Wellcome on Tuesday pledged $150 million each in the fight against Covid-19 and to prepare for future pandemics.
The $300 million will go to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a global partnership founded five years ago that co-leads Covax, the initiative to distribute Covid vaccines across the developing world, alongside the World Health Organization and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
“None of us believe Omicron will be the last variant, or that Covid-19 will be the last pandemic,” British scientist Jeremy Farrar, the director of Wellcome, said at a press briefing.
