New Delhi: India’s Covid chart showed improvement today, with the country recording 27,409 cases, a drop of 19.6 percent from yesterday. About 347 deaths were recorded during the period, according to the Health Ministry.
After a month-long surge in Covid cases, led by the highly contagious Omicron variant, has been steadily declining in most Indian states.
The country’s active caseload currently stands at 4,23,127. Active cases now account for 0.99 percent of the total infections in India.
India’s daily positivity rate has dropped from 3.19 percent to 2.23 percent. The weekly positivity rate stands at 3.63%.
12,29,536 Covid tests were conducted in the last 24 hours.
Maharashtra added 1,966 fresh coronavirus positive cases, over 1,500 less than the day before, and 12 fatalities due to the viral infection. With the latest additions, the overall tally of infections rose to 78,44,915 in the state and the number of COVID-19 fatalities mounted to 1,43,416.
Around 95 percent of swab samples examined in the latest round of genome sequencing in Mumbai have been found infected with the Omicron variant, according to the city civic body.
Delhi logged 586 COVID-19 cases and four fatalities, while the positivity rate marginally declined to 1.37 percent, according to data shared by the health department on Monday. With this, the national capital’s caseload increased to 18,51,906 and the number of deaths climbed to 26,076, the latest bulletin showed.
India has administered 173.42 crore vaccine doses since starting its national vaccination drive in January 2020.
Global COVID-19 cases have surpassed 400 million as the highly contagious Omicron variant dominates the outbreak, pushing health systems in several countries to the brink of capacity.
Coronavirus has killed at least 5,816,122 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to news agency AFP. The US has recorded the most Covid deaths with 919,845, followed by Brazil with 638,362, and India with 509,358.
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