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On Wednesday, India has reported 58,097 fresh Covid-19 cases along with15,389 recoveries, and 534 deaths in the last 24 hours, said the Health Ministry. India's total Covid-19 cases reach 35.02 million, death toll reaches 4,82,551. Country's daily positivity rate stands at 4.18%, Active cases stands at 2,14,004, total recoveries stand at 3,43,21,803 , said the data.    

Till date, 2,135 cases of Omicron variant of coronavirus have been reported across 23 states and Union Territories so far, out of which 828 have recovered or migrated, according to the Union health ministry's data updated on Wednesday.

Amidst the rising cases of Covid-19, several states have announced restrictions like night curfew. 

The WHO 

"Soaring Omicron cases around the world could increase the risk of a newer, more dangerous variant emerging", the World Health Organisation, or WHO, said yesterday. 

"While the variant is spreading like wildfire around the world, it appears to be far less severe than initially feared and has raised hopes that the pandemic could be overcome and life return to more normality", the WHO has said.