New Delhi: Amid reports that a new sub-lineage BA.2.75 of the Omicron variant is doing rounds in India, active Covid-19 caseload in the country jumped to 1.19 lakh on Thursday with nearly 19,000 new infections (18,930) which pushed the daily positivity rate to touch 4.32 per cent-mark.
Tamil Nadu and West Bengal witnessed a massive jump even as the two worst hit states—Delhi and Maharashtra recorded a dip in the infection, as per the data available from the Union Health Ministry.
India, during the past 24 hours, also reported 35 deaths that pushed the country's toll to 5.25 lakh with a case mortality rate of 1.21 per cent. Meanwhile, 14,650 recoveries were also reported in the same time span, pushing the total recoveries to 4.29 crore.
While Maharashtra reported 3,142 fresh cases, including 695 in Mumbai, and seven fatalities, Delhi logged 600 cases and one fatality with the test positivity rate declining to 3.27 per cent.
In contrast, West Bengal continued to see a massive spike in cases, reporting 2,352 new infections with a positivity rate of 16.24 per cent. Three fatalities were also reported that took the toll to 21,231. Currently, West Bengal has 14,270 active Covid-19 cases, as per the state health department.
Like West Bengal, Tamil Nadu also continued to report a spike in cases. In the last 24 hours, the southern state reported 2,743 new coronavirus cases that pushed its active caseload to 17,717. However, no new Covid-19 fatality was registered in the same time span, as per the state health department.
The 35 new fatalities include 19 from Kerala, seven from Maharashtra and three from West Bengal.
A total of 5,25,305 deaths have been reported so far in the country, including 1,47,956 from Maharashtra, 70,073 from Kerala, 40,122 from Karnataka, 38,027 from Tamil Nadu, 26,276 from Delhi, 23,543 from Uttar Pradesh and 21,231 from West Bengal. The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday had said that a new sub-lineage BA.2.75 of the Omicron variant is doing rounds in countries like India.
"On COVID-19, globally reports have increased nearly all WHO sub-regions increase this week," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. (Agencies)
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