New DelhiSo far, 2,135 cases of ‘Omicron’, a new form of corona virus, have been reported in India, out of which 828 people have become infection free or have migrated to other places. These cases were reported in 24 states and union territories. The Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday that the maximum number of 653 cases were reported in Maharashtra, followed by 464 in Delhi, 185 in Kerala, 174 in Rajasthan, 154 in Gujarat and 121 cases were reported in Tamil Nadu.
According to the updated data released by the ministry at 8 am, after 58,097 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in India in a day, the number of infected in the country has increased to 3,50,18,358. After about 199 days, so many daily cases have been reported, before that on 20 June 2021, 58,419 new cases were reported. After the death of 534 more infected in the country, the death toll has increased to 4,82,551. At the same time, the number of patients under treatment crossed two lakhs after about 81 days.
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Currently, 2,14,004 people are undergoing treatment for corona virus infection in the country, which is 0.61 percent of the total cases of infection. An increase of 42,174 has been registered in the number of patients under treatment for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. According to the data, the national rate of recovery of patients is 98.01 percent. The daily rate of infection was recorded at 4.18 percent and the weekly rate at 2.60 percent. So far, a total of 3,43,21,803 people have become infection free in the country and the death rate from COVID-19 is 1.38 percent.
So far, more than 147.72 crore doses of anti-COVID-19 vaccines have been administered under the nationwide vaccination campaign. The number of infected in the country had crossed 20 lakh on August 7 last year, 30 lakh on August 23 and more than 40 lakh on September 5. At the same time, the total cases of infection had crossed 50 lakh on 16 September, 60 lakh on 28 September, 70 lakh on 11 October, 80 lakh on 29 October and 90 lakh on 20 November. In the country, these cases crossed one crore on December 19, crossed two crore on May 4 this year and crossed three crore on June 23.