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# Third highest mortality: Globally over five million people have died since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. And India’s taken some of that heavy toll.
#Fresh cases push the Centre to review: Fresh cases of Omicron were reported in Delhi, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan and Odisha.
# Worrying projections: The next two months will witness as many as 300 crore Omicron cases across the globe but the infection-fatality rate will be lower than the Delta wave by around 97-99 per cent, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), an independent global health research centre at the University of Washington said.
#Antiviral spray, next year: As the world remains anxious for innovative tools to tackle the coronavirus, drugmaker Glenmark Pharmaceuticals expects the antiviral nasal spray from SaNOtize to be available in India in three months.
# Stay at home: To tackle the Covid-19 outbreak, more than 13 million residents in the northern Chinese city of Xi’an (provincial capital of north-west Shaanxi) have been ordered to stay at home. The city has recorded more than 140 cases in the last 10 days.
# Preparing for a surge, again: Tune in to hospital industry veteran Vishal Bali, for a peep into how hospitals are coping, and preparing with what they learnt from the second wave.
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