Covid-19
India reports over 3.29 lakh Covid-19 cases in 24 hours
New Delhi/IBNS: India, which is struggling to cope with the third wave of Novel Coronavirus pandemic, on Tuesday reported over 3.29 lakh fresh infections.
The country has reported 3,29,942 new cases taking the overall tally of infections to 2,29,92,517.
The Covid-19 toll has further increased to 2,49,993 with 3,876 deaths apparently due to the virus.
At the present moment, 37,15,221 people are still infected with the virus across the vast country of 1.3 billion people.
Several states including Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala are under complete lockdown called by the respective governments to stem the spread of the contagion.
WHO labels India's Covid strain as 'variant of concern'
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday classified India's Covid-19 strain, as a 'variant of concern' after the Asian country is facing a massive outbreak during the second wave of the pandemic.
The UN health agency said the B.1.617 variant of Covid-19 that was first detected in India last October seemed to be transmitting more easily than the original version of the coronavirus.
WHO said it might possibly have some increased resistance to vaccine protections.
"There is some available information to suggest increased transmissibility of the B.1.617," Maria Van Kerkove, the WHO's lead on Covid-19, told reporters.
"As such we are classifying this as a variant of concern at the global level," she said, stating that more details would be provided in the WHO's weekly epidemiological update on Tuesday.
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