Coronavirus Update: India reports 6,822 cases in 24 hrs, 100 foreign returnees ‘missing’

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• Dec 7, 2021 | moderator

New Delhi: India recorded 6,822 new Coronavirus cases and 200 fatalities in the last 24 hours. This is the lowest single day spike in over 18 months. Active cases stand at Rs 95,014, the lowest in 554 days and over 10,000 people recovered on Monday.

India’s Omicron cases have risen to 23 after two new cases of the new Covid variant was reported in Mumbai on Monday. The first two cases were reported in Karnataka, followed by one in Gujarat and another in Maharashtra. Later on Sunday, seven cases were reported in Maharashtra’s Pune district, of which six belonged to the same family.

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Due to the rising cases, several states have stepped up vaccination, surveillance and containment measures along with travel guidelines for international fliers.

Centre has urged the public to follow Covid appropriate behaviour in public places and wear mask, use hand sanitizers always.

Amid the Omicron scare, kalian Dombivali Municipal Corporation chief Vijay Suryavanshi on Monday said 109 out of 295 recent foreign returnees to the township in Thane district were untraceable currently. He said the mobile phones of some of these people were switched off while many of the last given addresses were found to be locked.

Suryavanshi said returnees to KDMC limits from all ‘at risk’ nations have to undergo 7-day home quarantine, and a Covid-19 test will be conducted on the eighth day.