Omicron Coronavirus Live News, Covid-19 Cases and Deaths in India Recent Updates, Covid Restrictions Feb 24 Latest Updates: India on Thursday recorded 14,148 new Covid-19 cases and 302 deaths in last 24 hours, as per the official data updated by the Union Ministry of Health. The daily infections have remained below one lakh for 18 consecutive days now. The Ministry informed that the active cases comprised 0.35 per cent of the total infections, while the national recovery rate has further improved to 98.46 per cent.

WHO epidemiologist Dr Maria Van Kerkhove has said that the decline in the number of Covid cases may not be real as the amount of testing has reduced significantly across countries. The world has seen a reduction of almost 20 per cent in new Covid cases as compared to last week, Kerkhove noted. She suggested that for countries to abandon their testing practices is not a smart move.

Kerkhove was speaking at a live question and answer session where she noted that. She further added that tracking and monitoring the virus is really important as it will continue to change and new variants will definitely emerge.

High number of Omicron cases in Singapore indicates that the coronavirus wave due to the variant is likely to peak soon in the country, an infectious disease experts here has said. The daily cases of Omicron in the city-state have gone beyond 20,000 expected earlier to 20,312 new infections on Wednesday and 26,032 on Tuesday. “I suspect the peak will be soon (if it wasn't yesterday!),” said Associate Professor Alex Cook, an expert in healthcare modelling at the National University of Singapore's Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, on Wednesday. He expects the wave to peak within a fortnight, The Straits Times reported. 

Covid-19 Omicron Live Updates: Active COVID-19 cases in country decline to 1,48,359

India logged 14,148 new coronavirus infections, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,28,81,179, while the active cases dipped to 1,48,359, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. The death toll climbed to 5,12,924 with 302 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. 

Covid-19 Omicron Live Updates: Three new COVID-19 cases in Andamans, tally rises to 10,015

The COVID-19 tally of Andaman and Nicobar Islands rose to 10,015 on Thursday as three more people tested positive for the infection, a health bulletin said. The coronavirus death toll remained unchanged at 129 as no fresh fatality was recorded, it said. The Union territory now has 24 active cases, while 9,862 people have recovered from the disease so far, including eight in the last 24 hours. The administration has thus far tested over 6.97 lakh samples for COVID-19, and fully vaccinated more than 3.02 lakh people.