Thiruvananthapuram Kerala India January 28 ANI Kerala Health Minister Veena George said that most of the positive COVID 19 samples sent for the genome sequencing are positive for the Omicron variant of the virus, while there are fewer Delta variant samples.
George said continuous sequencing of Covid positive samples is being done. Nearly 94 per cent of samples have positive Omicron and 6 per cent for delta. George said it is now clear that the third wave in Kerala is the Omicron wave. The Health Minister said that less than 4 per cent of the COVID- 19 patients in the state need hospitalisation out of which less than 1 per cent needed oxygen beds.
Out of the total positive cases in Kerala, only 3.6 per cent are hospitalised, a 0.7 per cent of which 0.7 per cent require oxygen beds and 0.6 per cent require ICU, she said.
As of 27 January, there are 22,02, 472 active cases in India. In the last one week, the case positivity rate was 17.75 per cent, and 11 states have more than 50,000 active cases. More than 3 lakh active cases are registered in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala, according to the Union Ministry of Health.