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According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases 383 people have been admitted to hospital with omicron in the last 24 hours compared with 175 in the preceding period.
Deadly mutant of Coronavirus, Omicron has surged all across the world, The daily number of people admitted to hospital in South Africa with Covid-19 more than doubled on Tuesday from a day earlier.
India will keep scheduled international passenger flights suspended till January 31, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said on Thursday.
This comes days after the Centre decided not to resume scheduled international flights from December 15, less than a week after announcing the date, in the wake of rising concerns over the new Covid-19 variant, Omicron.
The nations that are currently on the ‘at-risk’ list of India are – European countries, including the UK, South Africa, Brazil, Botswana, China, Ghana, Mauritius, New Zealand, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Hong Kong and Israel.
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The central government on Thursday removed Singapore from the list of ‘at-risk’ countries, which means international passengers from the nation arriving in India will not need to follow additional Covid-19 testing and quarantine measures.
The positivity rate of tests was 24.9% on Tuesday, down from 26.4% the day earlier. Over the 24 hours 27 deaths due to Covid-19 were recorded, taking the total confirmed number of deaths in the country since the pandemic began to 90,002.