No need to panic, take precautions, measures put in place to meet any challenge: Officials
Srinagar: After a long hiatus, a fresh case of COVID-19 has been reported in Jammu and Kashmir even as officials said that there is no need to panic but advised people to take precautions.
An official from GMC Jammu told the news agency KNO that a patient who had come in contact with a person who had returned from abroad had tested positive for COVID-19.
He said that this was the first case of now endemic Covid-19, however, his sample has been sent to the genome sequencing laboratory to find the sub-variant behind the case.
He added that the patient who is recovering now had mild symptoms and has been kept under observation at home.
He added that there is no need to panic but people need to take precautions like they were taking earlier.
An official said that normal precautions are enough to combat Covid-19 and its strains and there is no need to panic.
India records 797 new Covid cases
India has logged 797 new cases of COVID-19, the highest in 225 days, while the number of active cases of the infection have been recorded at 4,091, the health ministry said on Friday.
Five new fatalities due to Covid– two from Kerala and one each from Maharashtra, Puducherry and Tamil Nadu — have been reported in a span of 24 hours, according to the ministry’s data updated at 8 am.
The country had recorded 865 new cases on May 19.
The number of daily cases had dropped to double-digits till December 05, but the cases have again gone up after emergence of a new variant and cold weather conditions.
The daily numbers were in lakhs at the peak of the pandemic, which began in early 2020 and has seen more than 4.5 crore people getting infected and over 5.3 lakh deaths in about four years since then across the country.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease stands at over 4.4 crore with a national recovery rate of 98.81 percent, according to the ministry’s website.
According to the website, 220.67 crore doses of Covid vaccines have so far been administered in the country.
