Covid Update: India's Positivity Rate At 18% With 3.5 Lakh New Cases, Omicron Cases Rise By 4.36%

India's active caseload currently stands at 20,18,825. The active cases stand at 5.23%. The recovery rate is currently at 93.50%

A Covid patient inhales herbal medicine in Kanyakumari (Image: PTI)

New Delhi: Continuing the upward trend in Covid cases, India has reported nearly 3.5 lakh infections on Friday, The country registered 3,47,254 new COVID cases (29,722 more than yesterday) and 2,51,777 recoveries in the last 24 hours. India has also registered a surge in death tally as 703 people succumbed to the virus in the last 24 hrs. 

Active case: 20,18,825

Daily positivity rate: 17.94%

9,692 total Omicron cases detected so far; an increase of 4.36% since yesterday. India's active caseload currently stands at 20,18,825. The active cases stand at 5.23%. The recovery rate is currently at 93.50%

Maharashtra

Maharashtra on Thursday recorded 46,197 fresh coronavirus cases, including 125 Omicron infections, and 37 new deaths, while more than 52,000 patients recovered from the disease, the health department said.

The daily tally was 2,500 more than a day ago, when the state had reported 43,697 cases.

With fresh additions, the number of COVID-19 cases in the state rose to 73,71,757, while the death toll increased to 1,41,971, the department said.

It said 52,025 patients were discharged in the last 24 hours, taking the number of recovered cases to 69,67,432.

The state now has 2,58,569 active cases.

Currently, 24,21,501 people are in home quarantine and another 3,391 in institutional quarantine, the department said.

On Omicron, it said, Today, 125 patients with Omicron infections have been reported in the state. Of these, 87 have been reported by the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research and 38 have been reported by the National Chemical Laboratory (where genome sequencing of swab samples was done). All the 125 Omicron infections were reported from Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) areas.

The state has recorded 2,199 Omicron infections so far, of which 1,144 patients have recovered.