Daily Life: A bike rider wearing face mask to help curb the spread of COVID-19 as young girls walking without mask during the pandemic in New Delhi, India on Dec. 08, 2021. India has reported 8,439 new cases of Covid-19 and 195 deaths in the last 24 hours, a bulletin released by the Union health ministry on Wednesday stated. India's active caseload currently stands at 93,733. In the wake of Omicron cases being detected in a few places in the country, the Union health ministry on Wednesday wrote to states and union territories, stating that patients of the new coronavirus variant have to be treated in designated Covid facilities with separate isolation area. Photo by Shailendra Pandey/Indian Photo Agency(InPA)