New Delhi: India reported a decline in covid-19 cases with the country logging 3,720 new infections in the last 24 hours, the union health ministry data stated.
Active cases have also declined to 40,177. While the daily positivity rate has reached 2.47% the weekly positivity rate stood at 3.46%.
In the last three years of the pandemic, India reported more than 44.9 million cases and 5,31,584 covid related deaths. Karnataka reported 990 active cases, while Kerala 9014 active cases, Maharashtra 3351 active cases, Gujarat 946 cases, Delhi 2388 cases, Tamil Nadu 2388 active cases; Haryana 2925 cases, Chhattisgarh 1974 cases, Rajasthan 2373 cases, Uttar Pradesh 2378 cases and West Bengal 2140.
Scientists have said that the XBB.1.16 variant of coronavirus is responsible for the current surge in cases. But, the infection is supposed to be milder in nature and may not lead to a rise in hospitalisation rate as Indians have likely developed hybrid immunity due to vaccination and natural exposure to the disease.