Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Dec 30: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced on Thursday that almost 90% of India’s adult population has been vaccinated against COVID-19 with the first dosage.
Briefing media persons, Luv Aggarwal, Joint Secretary, Union Health Ministry said, “Approximately 90 per cent of the adult population in India has been vaccinated against COVID-19 with the first dose. On average, India reported more than 8,000 cases per day last week. Overall case positivity rate stands at 0.92 per cent. From December 26 onwards, the country has been reporting 10,000 daily cases.”
“The weekly positivity rate of more than 10 per cent is being noted in eight districts including six districts of Mizoram, one from Arunachal Pradesh and Kolkata in West Bengal. The weekly case positivity rate is between 5-10 per cent in 14 districts of the country. There are 961 cases of Omicron variant of coronavirus in India, out of which 320 patients have recovered,” he added.
India reported 13,154 new COVID-19 cases and 268 deaths in the last 24 hours.
The tally of Omicron variant cases in the country has reached to 961 with maximum cases in Delhi (263) and Maharashtra (252).
With this, the country’s COVID-19 tally has risen to 34,822,040 while the death toll has mounted to 4,80,860.