India Records Biggest Single-Day Rise Of Covid19 Cases In Six Months
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03 April, 2023 08:31 am IST
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India on Sunday recorded a single-day jump of 3,824 COVID-19 infections, the biggest in 184 days, while the number of active cases increased to 18,389.
According to Union health ministry data, with the fresh infections, India's COVID-19 tally rose to 4.47 crore (4,47,22,605). The death toll climbed to 5,30,881 with five deaths.
The daily positivity rate stood at 2.87% and the weekly positivity rate at 2.24%. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,41,73,335, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.19 per cent.
Maharashtra on Sunday reported 562 new COVID-19 cases, taking the overall infection tally to 81,45,342, while the death of three persons raised the fatality count to 1,48,444, a health official said. While, Delhi reported 429 Covid cases and one death in the last 24 hours. The positivity rate was just over 16 per cent.
With World Health Organisation (WHO) monitoring Omicron XBB.1.16 subvariant that has largely been documented in India, Dr Rajesh Karyakarte, Maharashtra coordinator for genome sequencing, said it was due to whole genome sequencing (WCG) of Covid positive samples that the infection could be detected at an early stage in the country.
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