New Delhi: India recorded 5,784 new coronavirus infections, the lowest in 571 days. While 7,995 people recovered from the infection, 252 people lost their lives to the virus. The active caseload stood at 88,993 which was the lowest in 563 days. Active cases were 0.26% which was less than 1% of the total cases. While the recovery rate was 98.37 percent.
According to the official website of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the total number of tests conducted on the previous day stood at 9,90,482
The number of vaccinations in the country has increased by 66,98,601 in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of vaccinations to 1,33,88,12,577.
The daily positivity rate was 0.58% which remained less than 2% for the last 71 days, while the weekly positivity rate was 0.68% which was less than 1% for the last 30 days.
The 252 new people include 203 from Kerala and 12 from Tamil Nadu.
Of the 203 deaths in Kerala, 38 were reported in the past few days and 165 were designated as COVID-19 deaths after receiving an appeal based on the Centre’s fresh guidelines and the Supreme Court’s directions, a Kerala state government official said. stated in the release. Monday.
A total of 4,75,888 deaths have been reported in the country so far, including 1,41,264 from Maharashtra, 43,170 from Kerala, 38,268 from Karnataka, 36,624 from Tamil Nadu, 25,100 from Delhi, 22,914 from Uttar Pradesh and 19,610 from West Bengal.
The ministry insisted that more than 70 per cent of the deaths were due to co-morbidities.
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As per a PTI report, the total number of Covid-19 cases in India has reached 41 with the Omicron variant. Maharashtra reported 20 cases of COVID-19 with Omicron variant, 9 in Rajasthan, 3 in Karnataka, 4 in Gujarat, 1 in Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Chandigarh and 2 in Delhi. Of the new cases, two cases have been reported from Maharashtra and one case from Gujarat. Two people who tested positive in Maharashtra had traveled from Dubai while the person found positive in Gujarat had returned from South Africa.
Globally, the World Health Organization noted that as of December 9, 63 countries with the Omicron variant had reported COVID-19 cases. According to the BBC report, the first death from the new mutation of the virus was from the United Kingdom.
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