Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Vaccine inequity remains an issue both within India, where less than 2 per cent of the population has received a Covid booster, and the globe with 56 countries unable to inoculate even 10 percent of their people, says Johns Hopkins scientist Amita Gupta. India News | No One Safe Until All Vaccinated for Covid, Track Hospitalisations: Johns Hopkins Scientist.
The removal of COVID-19 restrictions, including schools reopening for offline classes, increased socialising and economic activity may be driving the spike in the national capital and its surrounding areas, and some other pockets, they said.
The central government's panel of experts is conducting genomic sequencing of the Covid-19 sample reported as a case of the XE variant by Mumbai's civic officials.