India has stepped up surveillance of Covid cases after a spike in cases in neighbouring China.
caused by BF.7, the Omicron subvariant linked to a spike in cases in China.
According to government data, India currently has only around 3,400 active coronavirus cases, but reports ofhas created a sense of fear in the country. Several experts have said that India - which witnessed two deadly waves of Covid in 2020 and 2021 - does not have reason to panic. Over 2.2 billion Covid vaccine doses have been administered so far in the country, but only 27% of the population have taken the booster dose - which India calls a "precaution dose" - so far.
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