Govt announces new Covid task force
State records 37 fresh cases
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With three waves clustered between December and March, experts analyse what this means for severity of infection.
The trend of rising Covid cases was due to the XBB.1.16 variant of Omicron. On average, the state had been reporting around 1,000 Covid cases daily.
The assessment comes at a time when the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that Covid-19 is no longer a global emergency. It was posted recently on medRxiv, a preprint server for health sciences.
Between April 10 and 16, the state recorded 5,582 Covid-19 cases, which slightly dropped to 5,550 in the next seven days between April 17 and 23. However, the number of new infections dropped by 32 per cent to 3,771 between April 24 and 30, according to an analysis of the data by The Indian Express.