India is witnessing a spike in COVID-19 cases due to the spread of new variant, Omicron. Dr Christopher Murray, Director, Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation, Washington, US says that "In India, we expect about 5 lakh cases during peak which should come during next month. Omicron is less severe and will have much less hospitalisation and deaths than you had in Delta variant".

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