AGARTALA, May 12 (TIWN): Opposition party CPI-M has asked the BJP led State Govt to organize more numbers of testing as the Covid-19 cases are alarming and the increasing rates also worsening. Massive Coronavirus cases' rise have been recorded in Tripura in the last 24 hours with a total 11 deaths and 466 new cases have been recorded. 6288 total tests were done today and 466 Covid positive cases have been reported. The latest Covid death and positivity rates in Tripura of 24 hours were record breaking for the year 2021. Rapid Antigen Testing has been started in AMC areas. At the same time, the national record of Covid-19 is also alarming. India has recorded 3.29 Lakh Fresh COVID-19 Cases, 3,876 Deaths. A total of 3,29,942 infections were reported in a span of 24 hours, while the death count climbed to 2,49,992 with 3,876 fresh fatalities, the data showed.After registering a steady rise for two months, the active cases have reduced to 37,15,221 comprising 16.16 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 82.75 per cent.

The World Health Organization said Wednesday that a variant of Covid-19 behind the acceleration of India's explosive outbreak has been found in dozens of countries all over the world.

The UN health agency said the B.1.617 variant of Covid-19, first found in India in October, had been detected in more than 4,500 samples uploaded to an open-access database "from 44 countries in all six WHO regions".

"And WHO has received reports of detections from five additional countries," it said in its weekly epidemiological update on the pandemic.

Outside of India, it said that Britain had reported the largest number of Covid cases caused by the variant.

Earlier this week, the WHO declared B.1.617 -- which counts three so-called sub-lineages with slightly different mutations and characteristics -- as a "variant of concern".

It was therefore added to the list containing three other variants of Covid-19 -- those first detected in Britain, Brazil and South Africa.

The variants are seen as more dangerous than the original version of the virus because they are either being more transmissible, deadly or able to get past some vaccine protections.