India issued fresh Covid advisory after alarming reprts from China

Debjit Mukherjee: India today issued a fresh Covid advisory after alarming reprts from China prompted a high-level meeting to chalk out the strategy to prevent a surge here. India’s COVID-19 tally today climbed to 4,46,76,330 with 131 fresh infections, while the number of active cases came down to 3,408, according to Union health ministry data.

 

India also reported the first cases of Omicron subvariant BF.7, apparently the strain driving China’s current surge of Covid cases.

 

The first case of BF.7 in India was detected in October by Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre.