: Coronavirus: India records 16,764 new cases, Omicron tally surpasses 1,000-mark #IndiaNEWS India on Friday recorded 16,764 news coronavirus cases, taking the country’s tally to 3,48,38,804 since

Coronavirus: India records 16,764 new cases, Omicron tally surpasses 1,000-mark #IndiaNEWS
India on Friday recorded 16,764 news coronavirus cases, taking the country’s tally to 3,48,38,804 since the pandemic began last year, according to the health ministry. This is 27.44% higher than Thursday’s count of 13,154 cases.As many as 220 deaths were reported over the last 24 hours, taking the toll to 4,81,080. India’s active caseload stood at 91,361 after it decreased by 8,959.Total recoveries stood at 3,42,66,363 after 7,585 patients tested negative for the virus over the last 24 hours.Cases of the Omicron variant of coronavirus increased from 961 to 1,270 on Friday. Omicron was first reported in the country on December 2 and has now spread to 23 states and Union Territories.The most Omicron infections have been reported from Maharashtra (450), followed by Delhi (320) and Kerala (109).The health ministry said that 374 out of the 1,270 people who tested positive for the new variant have recovered or migrated.On Thursday, new coronavirus cases registered in Kolkata showed a 101.85% jump and those recorded in Mumbai rose by 46.25% when compared to the previous day’s figures.The test positivity rate in Mumbai has risen sharply in the past three days, official data showed. The city on Thursday reported a positivity rate of 7.9%, as compared to 4.8% on Wednesday and 4.2% on Tuesday.Mumbai, however, reported zero deaths...Read more

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