People with co-morbidities are ending up in hospital ICUs with their CT scan showing COVID-19 pneumonia, which is not happening in others this time. This group should mask up and avoid social interaction for the time being, says Dr GC Khilnani, Chairman of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at PSRI Hospital
During the last four months, more than 1900 Omicron sub-variants have been detected among the samples analysed by the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium across the country.
Omicron and its sub-lineages continue to be the dominant coronavirus variants in India, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar told the Lok Sabha on Friday.