Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Dec 23: India reported 7,495 new Covid-19 cases and 434 deaths in the last 24 hours. With this, India’s overall Covid-19 caseload has gone up to 3.42 crore.
A total of 6,960 people got recovered from the virus in the last 24 hours and the active case count increased to 101. Currently, 3,42,08,926 have recovered from coronavirus in the country so far, which is 98.40% of the total caseload. On the other hand, the fatality rate stands at 1.38%, informed the Union Health Ministry.
The daily positivity rate is 0.62%, less than 2% for the last 80 days and the weekly positivity rate is at 0.59% which is less than 1% for the last 39 days. India conducted 12,05,775 Covid tests in the last 24 hours. With this, 66.86 crore (66,96,43,929) Covid tests have been conducted so far.
According to the Ministry, 236 cases of Omicron have been reported in the country so far. Out of this Maharashtra topped the list with 65 cases followed by Delhi with 64 cases.
In light of the new version, the Prime Minister instructed officials to be “pro-active.” States and union territories were notified about the new Covid-19 variety by the health ministry on Tuesday. According to the report, Omicron is at least three times more transmissible than the Delta version, based on existing scientific research.
Following the outbreak of Omicron, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will examine the country’s coronavirus disease (Covid-19) situation on Thursday.
