India reports under 1 lakh COVID-19 cases first time in 31 days

moneycontrol.com:

India has recorded 83,876 daily COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours which means that under 1 lakh fresh infections were registered in a day, for the first time in 31 days.

This takes the COVID-19 tally of total confirmed cases in the country to 4,22, 72, 014 cases while the number of active cases is now 11,08, 938 in India, which came down by 1,16,073 as compared to the day before.

This also marked a decrease of 9.4 per cent in the active cases in India in the last 24 hours and the pandemic may be shrinking at the rate of 7 per cent in the country.

Another relieving news is that no state of Union Territory, including Kerala and Manipur which had shown increase in active cases in the last week, however, reported a rise in the active COVID-19 cases.

Omicron India LIVE Updates

COVID-19 Vaccine

Frequently Asked Questions

A vaccine works by mimicking a natural infection. A vaccine not only induces immune response to protect people from any future COVID-19 infection, but also helps quickly build herd immunity to put an end to the pandemic. Herd immunity occurs when a sufficient percentage of a population becomes immune to a disease, making the spread of disease from person to person unlikely. The good news is that SARS-CoV-2 virus has been fairly stable, which increases the viability of a vaccine.

There are broadly four types of vaccine — one, a vaccine based on the whole virus (this could be either inactivated, or an attenuated [weakened] virus vaccine); two, a non-replicating viral vector vaccine that uses a benign virus as vector that carries the antigen of SARS-CoV; three, nucleic-acid vaccines that have genetic material like DNA and RNA of antigens like spike protein given to a person, helping human cells decode genetic material