Amidst the health department raising serious concerns over declining mask usage in the country, India has reported 26 cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. The department, however, heaved a sigh of relief with none of the patients have reported severe symptoms. “Omicron cases account for less than 0.04 percent of total variants detected,” Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary at the Union Health Ministry said at a briefing.
With 8,503 people testing positive for the coronavirus in a day, India’s COVID-19 tally climbed to 3,46,74,744, while the number of active cases rose to 94,943, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. The death toll mounted to 4,74,735 with the addition of 624 new fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 a
