India’s Omicron wave could intensify in the coming weeks: experts | Coronavirus pandemic News

Top experts say the variation in community transmission is due to the fact that hospitals are seeing more patients in major cities despite a decrease in cases.

COVID-19 infections in India driven by Omicron variants a sharp rise In the coming weeks, some leading experts say that the variant is already in the community transmission and that hospitals are seeing more patients in major cities despite a decrease in cases.

India reported 306,064 new infections in the last 24 hours, the health ministry said, roughly 8 per cent of the average daily reported cases in the last four days. The death toll was 439, the lowest in five days.

But weekly positive rates rose to 17.03 percent for the week of Jan. 24 from about 0.63 percent on Dec. 27, driven by high transmissions. Omikron variant.

“Omicron is now in community transmission in India and has dominated for many meters,” a report by the SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) of India said in a report released on Sunday, January 10th.

Most cases of the Omicron variant have been mild, according to the counseling team, despite the growing number of hospitalizations and intensive care cases.

In the last two weeks major cities such as the capital, New Delhi, and the Mumbai financial center in the richest state of Maharashtra, in cases where there have been sharp declines after the peaks hit.

That could change, said Dr. Subhash Salunke, a member of the State Medical Research Council of India and the national working group on COVID, as the variant is spreading to semi-urban and rural areas.

The western state expects to see multiple peaks in the next eight to ten weeks, Salunke said, having previously advised the Maharashtra government.

“The number of cases in cities like Mumbai and Pune is at the tip of the iceberg,” Salunk told Reuters, adding that the deadly Delta variant of the previous wave was also circulating.

The number of general infections in India reached 39.54 million, the second highest in the world after the United States. The country has killed 489,848 people as a result of the virus.