According to data from the Federal Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India’s daily number of infections dropped sharply on Tuesday, with 5,784 cases recorded in the past 24 hours. This is 21.3% lower than Monday, when the country reported 7,350 cases, the lowest level in 571 days.

Data from the Ministry of Health show that there are 252 new related deaths. The current total number of Covid-19 is 34,703,644, of which 475,888 have died.

The Ministry of Health data also showed that the number of active cases was the lowest in the past 563 days, at 88,993. It currently accounts for 0.26% of the total cases.

The Ministry of Health added in its daily health briefing that the recovery rate was 98.37%, the same as Monday. The total number of people recovered in the country is 34,138,763, of which 7,995 have recovered in the past 24 hours.

The Ministry of Health also stated that the daily positive rate of 0.58% for the past 71 days is less than 2%, and the weekly positive rate of 0.68% for the past 30 days is less than 1%. So far, in the nationwide vaccination campaign, the country has received as many as 1.33 billion doses of vaccine.

Given the Omicron variant of Covid-19, experts are cautious about the daily trajectory, so the number of cases has fallen. Omicron is described as a “variant of concern” and is the latest mutation of the Covid-19 virus. It is said that it is more infectious than the previous variants-Delta and Delta Plus.

As of Monday, the country has 41 cases of Omicron variant, including Maharashtra (20), Rajasthan (9), Karnataka (3), Gujarat (4), Kerala (1) and Andhra Pradesh (1) and the territories of Federal Delhi (2) and Chandigarh (1).

Complete News Source : Hindustan Times