3.33 Lakh New Covid Cases In India, Marginally Lower Than Yesterday

India’s daily Covid curve showed marginal improvement today as the country reported 3.33 lakh cases, which is marginally lower than yesterday. With a tally of 3.91 crore cases, India is the second worst-hit country after the US.

The active cases now comprise 5.57 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has decreased to 93.18 per cent. The daily positivity rate – the share of coronavirus tests that return positive and considered a key marker of the pandemic’s status – is slightly up from 17.22% to 17.78% while the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 16.65 per cent.

India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has crossed 161.81 crore doses with more than 61 lakh doses being administered on Saturday, the Health Ministry said. More than 79 lakh (79,78,438) precaution doses for the identified categories of beneficiaries have been administered so far.

As many as 525 people have died of Covid during the past 24-hour period, according to the Health Ministry. Fourteen states have reported more than 10 deaths.

Daily Covid infections in Maharashtra, one of the worst-hit states by the Covid pandemic, rose by 46,393 on Saturday. 416 Omicron infections and 48 pandemic-related deaths were also reported in the state, as per the health department.

Mumbai reported 3,568 new coronavirus cases on Saturday – a 28 per cent drop from a day before and 83 per cent over the all-time high two weeks ago. This was the fourth day in a row that daily COVID-19 cases dropped in the country’s financial capital.

Delhi added 45 deaths in the last 24 hours – highest number of deaths in a single day after June 5 which saw 68 fatalities – due to COVID-19.

With 16 fresh coronavirus-linked deaths, the number of deaths rose to 23,038 in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, while 16,740 new cases took the infection tally to 19,33,165 on Saturday, according to an official statement. The state has extended the closure of schools in the state till January 30 in view of rising coronavirus cases in the state.