No purpose to fret till a brand new Covid variant of concern will get detected, says Satyendar Jain

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The Delhi authorities is holding a watchful eye over the COVID-19 scenario and there was no purpose to fret till a brand new variant of concern is detected, Health Minister Satyendar Jain mentioned on Monday.

Interacting with reporters right here, the minister additionally sought to allay apprehensions over the regular rise in every day instances in Delhi and the positivity price being recorded past one per cent in the previous few days.

“The count of daily cases in Delhi is being reported in the range of 100-200. We are keeping an eye on hospital admissions, and that is going down. Focus shouldn’t be on positivity rate much as of now,” Jain mentioned.

Delhi reported 141 contemporary Covid instances and yet another dying on Sunday, whereas the positivity price stood at 1.29 %, in response to knowledge shared by the town well being division.

The minister’s remarks comes amid the scare of a brand new coronavirus variant. Jain mentioned, “everyday a new variant is getting generated as the virus is mutating”.

“The Delhi government is keeping a watchful eye over the COVID-19 pandemic situation. The World Health Organisation has not declared any new variant of concern. There is no reason to worry until a new variant of concern gets detected,” he mentioned.

The genomic evaluation of the COVID-19 XE variant pattern from Gujarat continues to be underway and outcomes are anticipated quickly, Union well being ministry sources had mentioned on Saturday.

The WHO has issued a warning in opposition to XE, a brand new variant of Omicron first detected within the UK, and urged that it could possibly be extra transmissible than any COVID-19 pressure up to now.

The XE variant is a mixture or recombinant of each sub-variants — BA.1 and BA.2 — of Omicron.

Gujarat reported its first case of the XE variant after a person from Mumbai examined optimistic for COVID-19 throughout his go to to Vadodara, a state official had mentioned.

Earlier to this, Mumbai civic physique officers had mentioned {that a} girl who had arrived from South Africa in February-end and examined optimistic in March has been contaminated by the XE variant, however the well being ministry has not confirmed it to be so. The ministry had mentioned that current proof doesn’t but point out that it’s a case of the XE variant.