Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Dec 28: India reported 6,358 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, pushing the active caseload in the country to 75,456, informed the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
653 Omicron cases have been reported in the country so far and at least 186 have recovered, the ministry informed.
Out of this, Maharashtra reported the maximum number of cases with 167 cases followed by Delhi with 165 cases. Kerala reported 57 cases so far and Telangana has confirmed 55 cases.
The active cases account for less than 1% of the total cases and is currently at 0.22%, which is lowest since March 2020.
6,450 patients recovered in the last 24 hours. With this, the current recovery rate is at 98.40% which is highest since the beginning of the pandemic. The weekly positive rate is at 0.64% remains less than 1% for the last 44 days now, while, the daily positivity rate reported being 0.61%. The daily positivity rate has remained below 2% for the last 85 days.
293 new fatalities have been reported in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 4,80,290.
Meanwhile, India has so far administered 142.47 crore vaccine doses under nationwide vaccination drive.