After the outbreak of the Omicron variant of Covid in various countries, the Union health department had said that tests for passengers arriving from 'at-risk' countries were mandatory. For those coming from the 'not- at- risk countries, only two per cent random tests were to be conducted.
Uttar Pradesh has been averaging 2.3-2.5 lakh tests a day
Under the "Green Pass", only people who have been vaccinated or recovered from the disease can participate in indoor and outdoor events with more than 100 persons, Xinhua news agency.
Millions more of the tests, supplied by Oxford Nanopore, are set to be rolled out later in the year.
According to Delhi government data, as many as 3,015 patients recovered in the last 24 hours. Till now, 63,007 people have recovered, 26,304 are active cases and 2,864 patients have succumbed to the deadly disease.
The Union Health Ministry, meanwhile, said the total number of people being tested for COVID-19 in the country will soon touch one crore.
The affected persons are losing their sense of taste and smell, as testified by a resident of the slum who pointed out that the fever with flu symptoms is spreading quite fast inside the slum and without help from KMC in getting tests done of the sick persons, they will continue to spend sleepless nights.
An Air India flight from Delhi to Moscow with no passenger on-board was asked to return midway on Saturday after its ground staff realised that one of the pilots of the plane had tested positive for coronavirus.
The sudden jump of coronavirus patient number from 500 to 602 in 24 hours has created worry for Uttarakhand government.
She further directed for immediate sanitization of the Court’s lockup and the section where the accused were taken without a covid test.
