Omicron cases in India increased to 83 on Thursday, with the addition of five new cases in Karnataka, 2 in Delhi and 1 in Gujarat, as per the Health Ministry sources .While, the total number of Omicron cases in Delhi rose to 10, Karnataka and Gujarat’s tally stood at 8 and 5 respectively. 

So far, Maharashtra has the highest number of Omicron cases at 32, followed by Rajasthan at 17, Delhi at 10, Karnataka at 8, 5 each in Gujarat and Kerala, Telangana at 2 and one each in Chandigarh, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. 

Besides this, the Covid cases on Thursday stood at 7,974 with 343 deaths in the last 24 hours till 8:00 AM, as per the data. 

Further, the weekly positivity rate stood at 0.64 per cent, remaining less than 1 per. cent for the last 32 days. The daily positivity rate stood at 0.57 per cent and it remained below 2 per cent for the last 73 days and below 3 per cent for 108 consecutive days.

In addition, the country conducted 12.16 lakh tests in the previous day aggregating to 66.02 crore tests done so far, as per the data.

Meanwhile, India administered more than 66.82 lakh vaccine doses till 7:30 PM aggregating to more than 135.94 crore inoculations done so far, as per the CoWIN Dashboard. Also, the Government informed that more than 16.42 crore Covid vaccine doses are still available with the States/UTs to be administered.

According to the Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, more than 55 per cent of the country's eligible population is fully vaccinated. While 55.52 per cent of the adult population has been fully vaccinated, about 88 per cent of the people have received their first dose.

Covid Table:

Source: Health Ministry

Till 8:00 AM on Thursday

 

 

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