Omicron Live Update: The third wave of Covid is likely to be reduced in February-end in Maharashtra, Delhi and West Bengal, said the Director General of the Indian Medical Research Board (ICMR) Dr. Samiran Panda. India reported the highest Covid-19 death toll during the third wave at 678 on Friday. This emerged even when new cases declined sharply to run the second day. India reported more than 1. 28 new cases of lakhFriday,
Dr. Panda told Times India that “the peak of cases encountered in these countries will go down to the basic level at the end of this month itself. The overall decline in the Covid case in the country is expected in March.” Epidemiologist Dr. Chandrakant Lahariya also told Toi that the third wave throughout the country is expected to end in the next three-four weeks. “With Omicron dominating 90% of cases and deltas only about 10%, the increase and fall in the case witnessed is a trend throughout the world,” he said.
The US death toll from Pandemi Covid-19 exceeded 900,000 on Friday, according to Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Tracker. Tolls have reached 800,000 dead in mid-December, only a month and half ago. New cases that are linked to the omicron variant fall, but daily deaths are still up, with an average of 2,400 now, according to government figures.
Meanwhile, of the 693 fatalities recorded in Delhi between January 13 and February 3, Covid-19 is the main cause of death in just 23.5 percent of cases, according to official data. In 530 cases, the findings of Covid-19 were incidental while in nine cases, the virus was detected among trauma patients. Data analysis showed that from 693 deaths were recorded during this period, the virus was the main cause of 163 cases. In 530 fatalities, the viral findings were incidental because patients had comorbidities and old pain, according to officials.
