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On Wednesday, India has recorded 1,94,720 fresh Covid-19 cases along with 60,405 recoveries and 442 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per the data updated by the union health ministry on Wednesday at 8 am. The active case load has mounted to 9,55,319 and the daily positivity rate has increased to 11.05 per cent. 

With fresh cases the Covid-19 tally in the country has reached to  3,60,70,510. The active cases comprise 2.65 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate decreased to 96.01 per cent, the ministry said. The country has so far reported a total of 4,868 Omicron cases. 

Study conducted by LNJP, Delhi

Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan (LNJP) Hospital of Delhi has recently conducted a study on the Omicron variant which shows that the virus is mutating but the disease severity is mild.

"This is one of the best research in Omicron done by gene sequencing lab. LNJP has done a study on Omicron and submitted data of 13 patients. We have compared the original virus from Wuhan, China," said Dr Suresh Kumar, Medical Director, LNJP.