By Express News Service
NEW DELHI: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared XBB.1.16 as a ‘variant of interest’.
With Covid-19 situations surging globally, India recorded 12,193 new Covid-19 situations and 42 deaths inside the last 24 hours.
The WHO declared Omicron subvariant XBB.1.16, which may also be driving the Covid-19 surge in India, a “variant of interest” (VOI) because of its “sustained increase” and “growth advantage” reported from 31 nations, along with the US.
XBB.1.16 is a descendent lineage of XBB, a recombinant of two BA.2 descendent lineages. XBB.1.16 was first reported on January 9 this yr and designated a variant beneath monitoring (VUM) on March 22.
“Following a sustained increase in the prevalence of XBB.1.16 and growth advantage reported from several countries, WHO classifies XBB.1.16 as a VOI,” Maria Van Kerkhove, technical lead for Covid-19 response at WHO, acknowledged.
She acknowledged that XBB.1.16, first detected in Maharashtra in March, has confirmed “growth advantage and immune escape”.
While “no changes in severity have been reported, it can cause a full range of diseases,” she acknowledged, together with that “be vigilant.”
As many as 3,648 sequences of the Omicron XBB.1.16 variant have been reported from 33 nations, along with India, on the open evaluation platform GISAID, the worldwide properly being physique.
According to union properly being ministry data, India, inside the last 24 hours, recorded 12,193 up to date Covid-19 situations, a 4.28 per cent enhance from the day before today, with the number of energetic situations of the an an infection going as a lot as 67,556.
As Covid-19 situations and deaths are seeing an uptick, the Union Health Ministry on Friday wrote to eight states – Kerala, poll-bound Karnataka, Haryana, Delhi, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Rajasthan – highlighting that the pandemic was faraway from over and that controlling the unfold of an an infection was important.
According to the ministry, whereas 63 districts inside the nation are recording a positivity charge of higher than 10 per cent inside the week ending April 19, 42 districts have registered a positivity charge between 5-10 per cent within the an identical interval. While in Kerala, 14 districts are recording over 10 per cent positivity charge; in Tamil Nadu, as many as 11 districts have recorded the an identical amount.
However, specialists acknowledged that other than these eight states, completely different states moreover reported a spike in new infections.
Among the states are – Madhya Pradesh, which reported a 60 per cent hike in amount from the day before today. The completely different states are Karnataka (25 %), West Bengal 23%), Odisha (13), and Chandigarh (11%), based mostly on Krishna Prasad N C, a Covid data analyst.
The dying toll from the viral sickness has climbed to 5,31,300, with 42 additional fatalities, along with ten reconciled by Kerala, inside the last 24 hours. As per properly being ministry data, 32 deaths, the easiest number of new deaths since August 30 last yr – had been reported, with Delhi registering eight deaths. This is adopted by Maharashtra (5).
While Kerala, Chhattisgarh, and Uttar Pradesh reported three deaths each; Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Tamil Nadu recorded two deaths each; and Uttarakhand, Puducherry, Punjab, and Madhya Pradesh registered one dying each inside the last 24 hours.
Though, the WHO well-known that although there was a “slight increase” in XBB.1.16-related hospitalisation in India and Indonesia, the levels are “much lower than seen in previous variant waves.”
It further acknowledged that “on the market data would not counsel that XBB.1.16 has additional public properly being hazard relative to XBB.1.5 and the other in the intervening time circulating Omicron descendent lineages.
“However, XBB.1.16 may become dominant in some countries and cause a rise in case incidence due to its growth advantage and immune escape characteristics,” it added.
NEW DELHI: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared XBB.1.16 as a ‘variant of interest’.
With Covid-19 situations surging globally, India recorded 12,193 new Covid-19 situations and 42 deaths inside the last 24 hours.
The WHO declared Omicron subvariant XBB.1.16, which may also be driving the Covid-19 surge in India, a “variant of interest” (VOI) because of its “sustained increase” and “growth advantage” reported from 31 nations, along with the US.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
XBB.1.16 is a descendent lineage of XBB, a recombinant of two BA.2 descendent lineages. XBB.1.16 was first reported on January 9 this yr and designated a variant beneath monitoring (VUM) on March 22.
“Following a sustained increase in the prevalence of XBB.1.16 and growth advantage reported from several countries, WHO classifies XBB.1.16 as a VOI,” Maria Van Kerkhove, technical lead for Covid-19 response at WHO, acknowledged.
She acknowledged that XBB.1.16, first detected in Maharashtra in March, has confirmed “growth advantage and immune escape”.
While “no changes in severity have been reported, it can cause a full range of diseases,” she acknowledged, together with that “be vigilant.”
As many as 3,648 sequences of the Omicron XBB.1.16 variant have been reported from 33 nations, along with India, on the open evaluation platform GISAID, the worldwide properly being physique.
According to union properly being ministry data, India, inside the last 24 hours, recorded 12,193 up to date Covid-19 situations, a 4.28 per cent enhance from the day before today, with the number of energetic situations of the an an infection going as a lot as 67,556.
As Covid-19 situations and deaths are seeing an uptick, the Union Health Ministry on Friday wrote to eight states – Kerala, poll-bound Karnataka, Haryana, Delhi, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Rajasthan – highlighting that the pandemic was faraway from over and that controlling the unfold of an an infection was important.
According to the ministry, whereas 63 districts inside the nation are recording a positivity charge of higher than 10 per cent inside the week ending April 19, 42 districts have registered a positivity charge between 5-10 per cent within the an identical interval. While in Kerala, 14 districts are recording over 10 per cent positivity charge; in Tamil Nadu, as many as 11 districts have recorded the an identical amount.
However, specialists acknowledged that other than these eight states, completely different states moreover reported a spike in new infections.
Among the states are – Madhya Pradesh, which reported a 60 per cent hike in amount from the day before today. The completely different states are Karnataka (25 %), West Bengal 23%), Odisha (13), and Chandigarh (11%), based mostly on Krishna Prasad N C, a Covid data analyst.
The dying toll from the viral sickness has climbed to 5,31,300, with 42 additional fatalities, along with ten reconciled by Kerala, inside the last 24 hours. As per properly being ministry data, 32 deaths, the easiest number of new deaths since August 30 last yr – had been reported, with Delhi registering eight deaths. This is adopted by Maharashtra (5).
While Kerala, Chhattisgarh, and Uttar Pradesh reported three deaths each; Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Tamil Nadu recorded two deaths each; and Uttarakhand, Puducherry, Punjab, and Madhya Pradesh registered one dying each inside the last 24 hours.
Though, the WHO well-known that although there was a “slight increase” in XBB.1.16-related hospitalisation in India and Indonesia, the levels are “much lower than seen in previous variant waves.”
It further acknowledged that “on the market data would not counsel that XBB.1.16 has additional public properly being hazard relative to XBB.1.5 and the other in the intervening time circulating Omicron descendent lineages.
“However, XBB.1.16 may become dominant in some countries and cause a rise in case incidence due to its growth advantage and immune escape characteristics,” it added.
