India reports 159 COVID-19 fatalities

India on Thursday reported 9,419 new COVID-19 cases and 159 fatalities, taking the cumulative caseload to 34,666,241 (94,742 active cases) and fatalities to 474,111.

Worldwide: Over 267.41 million cases and over 5.28 million fatalities, Times of India reported.

Vaccination in India: 1,303,932,286 doses. Worldwide: Over 8.24 billion doses.

Denmark and Britain announced new restrictions to stem surging caseloads.

Meanwhile. a lab test indicated that three doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine appear effective against the Omicron variant — encouraging news,

In preliminary results published on Wednesday, the US and German companies behind one of the world’s foremost shots to combat Covid-19 said a booster generated around the same level of potent antibodies against Omicron as is seen after a second dose with the initial strain, AFP reported.