Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Jan 7: India reported 1,17,100 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, informed the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Friday.
With this, the country’s active caseload is now at 3,71,363. The daily positivity rate in the country is 7.74% and the weekly positivity rate is at 4.54%.
The country’s caseload includes 3,007 cases of the Omicron. Out of the total Omicron cases reported so far, 1,199 people have recovered or migrated. Maharashtra recorded the maximum number of 876 cases followed by Delhi at 465, Karnataka 333, Rajasthan 291, Kerala 284 and Gujarat 204.
With the recovery of 30,836 patients in the last 24 hours, the cumulative tally of COVID recovered patients since the beginning of the pandemic, now stands at 3,43,71,845. The current recovery rate is at 97.57%.
Country’s death toll increased to 4,83,178 after 302 patients succumbed to the deadly infection in the last 24 hours.
Meanwhile, India conducted 15,13,377 COVID-19 tests in the last 24 hours and so far the country has conducted 68,68,19,128 tests as per the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) data.