India accounts for the second-highest caseload at 43,142,192.
The COVID-19 death toll climbed to 5,24,525 with 18 more fatalities.
As more persons are exposed to and infected by SARS-CoV-2, reports of patients who experience persistent symptoms or organ dysfunction after acute Covid and develop post-Covid conditions have increased.
In the same period, 17 Covid deaths were reported taking the nationwide toll to 5,24,507.
Nearly half of ventilated patients in the study (47 per cent) died because of COVID-19, a figure that is comparable to national and international death rates, they said.
The countrywide vaccination drive was rolled out on January 16 last year with healthcare workers getting inoculated in the first phase. Vaccination of frontline workers started from February 2 last year.
The death toll has climbed to 5,24,490 with 31 fatalities reported from Kerala, the data updated at 8 am stated.
India accounts for the second highest caseload at 43,138,393.
Ghebreyesus said the Covid-19 pandemic had demonstrated why the world needed the WHO
The Directorate emphasised that the validity of the passport of Saudis who intend to travel to non-Arab countries must be more than six months.
India's daily positivity rate has slightly increased to 0.69 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate currently stands at 0.49 per cent.
The genome sequencing body further said that the contact tracing of the BA.4 and BA.5 patients is being undertaken as a precautionary measure.
A total of seven new positive cases were detected across the State in the past 24 hours.
The team's test protocol was trialled with several captive and around 250 wild bats as part of a larger study. They discovered none were positive for SARS-CoV-2, although some were positive for other coronaviruses.
The active caseload currently stands at 14,995 cases, accounting for 0.03 per cent of the country's total positive cases.
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