India reported its first Omicron death in Udaipur, confirmed the centre. The man, Laxminarayan Nagar, was 73 years old.The man had tested positive for Covid on December 15 and has been in hospital since then. The person is reported to have comorbidities, like diabetes, hypertension, among others. As per reports, The genome sequencing results came in on December 25 and he was found to carry the Omicron variant. He died six days later on December 31 at around 3:30 am. Union health ministry join secretry Luv Aggarwal on Wednesday in a media briefing,said technically it is Omicron-related death.
India has 2,135 cases of the Omicron variant - the most in Maharashtra with 653 cases, followed by Delhi with 464 cases.The weekly positivity rate is 2.60 per cent; daily positivity rate is 4.18 per cent. Positivity rate is the percentage of all Covid tests that are actually positive. Soaring Omicron cases around the world could increase the risk of a newer, more dangerous variant emerging,
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