Maharashtra and Delhi have reported the highest number of 54 cases of Covid’s new Omicron variant
New Delhi:
The number of cases of Covid’s fast-spreading strain Omicron has crossed the 200-mark in India, the Union Health Ministry said today.
Out of them them, 77 patients have recovered or migrated, the ministry added.
Maharashtra and Delhi have reported the highest number of cases of the new variant — 54. They are followed by Telangana (20 cases), Karnataka (19), Rajasthan (18), Kerala (15) and Gujarat (14).
The ministry’s data updated on Tuesday also recorded that India had clocked 5,326 cases of Covid infections, the lowest daily case count in 581 days. The total number of Covid cases reported in the country now stands at 3.48 crore. As per the bulletin, there are now 79,097 active cases in the country, the lowest in 574 days.
With 453 deaths over the past 24 hours, the total death count in the pandemic has climbed to 4.78 lakhs.
