Covid Update: India Reports 27,409 Infections In Last 24 Hrs, Positivity Rate Dips To 2.23%

India records 27,409 fresh infections and 82,817 recoveries in the last 24 hours.

Covid testing in India (Image: PTI)

New Delhi: Continuing with the downward trend, India reported less than 30,000 fresh Covid cases on Monday. The country registered 27,409 fresh infections,  82,817 recoveries, and 347 deaths in the last 24 hours.

With the daily decrease in infections, the country's daily positivity rate now stands at 2.23%

Active case: 4,23,127

Daily positivity rate: 2.23%

Total recoveries: 4,17,60,458

Total vaccination: 173.42 crore doses

 

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Maharashtra

 Around 95 per cent of swab samples examined in the latest round of genome sequencing in Mumbai were found infected with the Omicron variant that triggered the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic in late December and which has now ebbed in the metropolis, according to a PTI report.

Out of the total 190 samples, 180 (94.74 per cent) were found infected with Omicron, three with the Delta variant (1.58 per cent), one with Delta (0.53 per cent) and six with other strains of coronavirus (3.16 per cent), a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) release said, citing test results of the ninth round of genome sequencing in the city.

Significantly, out of the 190 patients from Mumbai whose swab samples were sent for genome sequencing, 23 have died and 21 of them were infected with Omicron, the release said.

Maharashtra on Monday reported 1,966 fresh coronavirus positive cases, over 1,500 less than the day before, and 12 fatalities due to the viral infection, the state health department said.

With the latest additions, the overall tally of infections rose to 78,44,915 in the state and the COVID-19 death toll mounted to 1,43,416, the department said in a report.

On Sunday, Maharashtra had recorded 3,502 cases and 17 fatalities.