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Delhi recorded 1,333 COVID-19 cases on Saturday, the highest single-day rise in over a month.

These directions were issued by Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan as he chaired a high-level meeting on Wednesday to review the Covid situation in nine states -- Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh.

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, at a press conference earlier this week, said he is concerned that cases of COVID-19 are climbing -- putting further pressure on stretched health systems and healthcare workers.

Co-chairman of the National Indian Medical Association Covid-19 task force Dr Rajeev Jayadevan has warned that the virus is constantly mutating. 

Covid-19 Fourth Wave: The District Education Department has temporarily closed the school in response to the risk, reported ANI. 

The new Covid-19 wave is driven by BA.4 and BA.5 which are highly-transmissible, the European Medicines Agency has warned.

India on Friday saw a single-day rise of 18,815 new coronavirus infections, taking the tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,35,85,554, while the active cases increased to 1,22,335, according to the latest Union health ministry data. The death toll has climbed to 5,25,343 with 38 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed. An increase of 2,878 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.

The death toll climbed to 5,25,242 with 19 new fatalities, the Health Ministry data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise 0.26 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.53 per cent, the ministry said.

As per the expert, the new Omicron sub-variant is already present and has been detected in about 10 Indian states, IANS reported.

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