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new Delhi. Corona virus is once again causing havoc in many countries of the world. The cases of corona virus are increasing in countries like China and Japan. Government of India is on alert mode to stop Corona. On the other hand, in many reports regarding the new sub-variant of Corona, different claims are being made that Omicron’s sub-variant BA.5 is quite deadly. It is being claimed that BA.5 can be fatal for people’s brain.
PIB did a fact check regarding the study
However, this claim is false. Fact Check by PIB states that Omicron’s sub-variant BA.5 is fatal to the brain. PIB has tweeted from the Fact Check Twitter handle that this claim is not true and completely misleading. According to this fact check, different news reports are quoting the study but this has not been proved in the research. In the study, the effect of Omicron’s sub-variant BA.5 on the human brain has not been revealed.
It was being told in media reports that during the study, the BA.5 sub-variant caused more damage to rat brain and human brain tissue. This increased the risk of brain swelling, weight loss and death. Research was told that the rats died of brain infection of BA.5. However, now PIB has fact-checked the claims of the media reports.
So far more than 4 crore people have been infected in India
After the arrival of 173 new cases of corona virus infection in India in one day, the number of people infected so far in the country has increased to 4,46,78,822, while the number of patients under treatment has come down to 2,670. According to the updated data released by the Union Health Ministry at 8 am on Monday, the death toll has increased to 5,30,707 after the death of one patient due to infection in Uttarakhand. While re-reconciling the figures of death due to infection, Kerala has added one more name to the list of patients who lost their lives due to the global pandemic.
