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India Begins Booster Campaign As Omicron Cases Soar

India began a Covid-19 booster shot campaign for frontline workers and vulnerable people aged 60 and above on Monday as authorities grapple with a rapidly escalating outbreak driven by the Omicron variant, IgbereTV reports.

Daily case numbers are approaching the enormous figures seen last year, when thousands died each day and workers maintained round-the-clock funeral pyres for the mass cremation of virus victims.

Nearly 180,000 new infections were recorded overnight, up nearly six times from a week earlier, with several urban centres imposing night-time curfews and restrictions on public gatherings.

โ€œWeโ€™ve seen the number of cases increasing,โ€ said Sheetal Vaishnav, a doctor helping oversee Mondayโ€™s vaccinations at a clinic in the capital New Delhi.

โ€œItโ€™s necessary that we start protecting our population more

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