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On Wednesday, India has reported 8,954 new Covid-19 cases, pushing the country's total tally of Covid-19 cases to 3,45,96,776, while the active cases have declined to 99,023, which is less than a lakh after 547 days, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Wednesday morning. 

Vaccination 

Meanwhile, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has administered 30.60 lakh Covid-19 vaccine doses to citizens in the Maharashtra city, said the civic body. So far, out of 19.73 lakh eligible people in the city, over 19 lakh have received their first dose, while more than 11 lakh citizens have taken both the jabs, the NMC said in a release issued on Tuesday night. 

The Delhi Airport begins screening 

About the screening of Omicron variant, the Delhi airport authority said, "Operations for international arrivals running smoothly after new guidelines for Omicron came into effect last night. Total 1,013 passengers from four ‘at-risk’ flights completed arrival formalities due to availability of Rapid PCR Test along with RTPCR test." 

Govt advised states to send positive samples 

A government official said, “We have told the states that whenever you have emerging hotspots and clusters of new cases, you should get 100 per cent of the genome sequenced. It is being done in Dharwad, where they had more than 240 cases in one institution, and in Bhiwandi, where 60 cases were detected in an old age home. We have told the states that wherever you have such a number, there should be mandatory genome sequencing,” the source was quoted by Indian Express as saying.