The Indian Ministry of Health announced an additional 90,928 cases of COVID-19 on Thursday (6/1/2022). This case increased by 57 percent on the previous day, namely 58,097 patients on Wednesday (5/1/2022).
Reuters reported, the total number of officially reported cases so far is more than 35 million, as the highly contagious variant of Omicron began to take over Delta, the strain first discovered in India.
Omicron cases in the country have risen to 2,135, a health ministry official told reporters in New Delhi. But with limited capacity for genome sequencing, the actual number is thought to be much higher.
Authorities in the capital New Delhi have ordered people to stay at home over the coming weekend as they fear the city will report more new cases.
The government has been pushing local authorities to impose movement restrictions if more than 5 percent of COVID-19 tests are positive, although hospital admissions have not spiked.
India faced a brutal second wave of infections between April and June last year, fueled by the Delta variant that flooded health infrastructure and killed tens of thousands of people.
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