India recorded 1,68,063 new Covid cases today, a 6.4% decrease from yesterday, including 4,461 cases of the Omicron variant. The country also reported 277 deaths from the coronavirus in the past 24 hours.

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The daily positivity rate came down to 10.64 per cent today from 13.29 per cent yesterday. The weekly positivity rate was recorded at 8.85 per cent. On Monday, the country had recorded 1.79 lakh Covid cases.

The current number of active cases is 8,21,446, or 2.29% of the total number of cases. The overall total of Covid cases has risen to 3,58,75,790, while India’s death toll has risen to 4,84,213.

There were at least 69,959 recoveries in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of recoveries to 3,45,70,131. The current recovery rate in India is 96.36%.

India has so far administered 1.5289 million doses of the vaccine. The country began implementing “prophylactic” doses for infections on Monday. More than 900,000 healthcare and frontline workers and more than 60 citizens with comorbidities received a third Covid jab on the first day, the ministry said.

Maharashtra, one of the states worst affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, reported 33,470 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, including 1,247 cases of the Omicron variant, and eight deaths. Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope said the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic has begun and will peak at the end of January.

India has conducted 693,100 coronavirus tests so far, including 1,579,928 tests yesterday, the Health Ministry said.

In a new advisory, the government’s top medical body said contacts of COVID-19 patients should not need to be tested unless they are determined to be high risk. It said asymptomatic individuals in community settings, patients discharged under home isolation guidelines, patients discharged from COVID-19 facilities, and individuals traveling interstate and domestically do not need to be tested.

Delhi reported 19,166 cases on Monday — every fourth person tested positive for the coronavirus in the city. The capital has a positivity rate of 25%, the highest since May 5. As cases rose, new restrictions were imposed on eating out and restaurants.

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