Covid Update: 6,984 Fresh Covid Cases In India, 20.7% Higher Than Yesterday

Four more cases of Omicron were reported in Delhi on Tuesday while eight cases of the new variant were reported from Maharashtra tally in India Rises to 57.

New Delhi: India reported 6,984 new coronavirus cases today. The number of active cases in the country declined to 87,562, according to the Union health ministry.

The number of active coronavirus cases in the country now account for 0.25 per cent of the total caseload, lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.38 per cent, the highest since March 2020, said the ministry.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization has warned that the new Omicron variant of coronavirus was spreading at an unprecedented rate and urged countries to act as drug maker Pfizer said its coronavirus pill was effective against the variant.

Four more cases of Omicron were reported in Delhi on Tuesday, said state health minister Satyendar Jain, adding that all of them had foreign travel history. Besides, eight Omicron cases were reported from Maharashtra, including seven from Mumbai. Currently, there are 57 Omicron cases in India.

With the addition of 55 new cases of coronavirus, the infection count in Maharashtra’s Thane district has risen to 5,70,675, while two more fatalities pushed the death count to 11,595 on Wednesday.The COVID-19 mortality rate in Thane is 2.03 per cent.

US Croses 800,000 Covid Deaths

The US, the country hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic, crossed 800,000 Covid-19 deaths on Tuesday, a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University showed, according to news agency AFP. The figure is greater than the entire population of several states, including North Dakota and Alaska.  Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, who lead the House of Representatives and Senate respectively, as well as House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and other members of Congress held a moment of silence on the steps of the Capitol building Tuesday evening.