New Delhi : A total of 1,525 cases of omicron type coronavirus have been detected in 23 states and union territories so far, out of which 560 have been cured or migrated, according to the data updated by the Union Health Ministry on Sunday.
Maharashtra recorded the highest number of 460 cases, followed by Delhi 351, Gujarat 136, Tamil Nadu 117 and Kerala 109.
India’s Covid tally rose to 34,889,132 with 27,553 fresh cases, while active cases rose to 122,801, according to data updated at 8 am on Sunday. The death toll has risen to 481,770 with 284 more fatalities, the figures said.
The ministry said the active cases have risen to 122,801, accounting for 0.35% of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has been recorded at 98.27%. The active Covid-19 caseload has registered an increase of 18,020 cases in a 24-hour period.
The daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.55%. According to the ministry the weekly positivity rate was also recorded at 1.35%.
The number of people recovering from the disease rose to 34,284,561, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.38%. The cumulative doses administered under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign so far in the country have exceeded 145.44 crores. India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 2 million mark on 7 August 2020, 3 million on 23 August, 4 million on 5 September and 5 million on 16 September. It crossed 6 million on 28 September, 7 million on 11 October, 8 million on 29 October, 9 million on 20 November and crossed the 10 million mark on 19 December.
India crossed the grim milestone of 20 million on 4 May and 30 million on 23 June.
Of the 284 new people, 241 are from Kerala and nine from West Bengal.
A total of 481,770 deaths have been reported in the country so far, including 141,533 from Maharashtra, 48,035 from Kerala, 38,340 from Karnataka, 36,784 from Tamil Nadu, 25,108 from Delhi, 22,915 from Uttar Pradesh and 19,773 from West Bengal. The ministry stressed that more than 70% of the deaths were due to co-morbidities.
“Our data is being collated with the Indian Council of Medical Research,” the ministry said on its website. The state wise distribution of data is subject to further verification and reconciliation.
The Union Health Ministry on Sunday also said that the country’s vaccination program against COVID-19 has been one of the most successful and largest in the world. It termed as “misleading” some media reports that claimed the country had missed its COVID-19 vaccination targets.
Since the launch of the national COVID-19 vaccination campaign on 16 January last, India has vaccinated more than 90% of its eligible citizens for the first dose and 65 percent for the second dose. “In a recent news article published by a reputed international news agency, it has been claimed that India has missed its vaccination target. This is misleading and does not represent the complete picture,” the ministry said in a statement.
In the fight against the global pandemic, India’s national immunization program has been the most successful compared to many developed western countries.
The ministry said that in the vaccination campaign, so far, the country has achieved several milestones that have no precedent in the world, including delivering more than 1 billion doses in less than nine months.
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