According to epidemiologists, covid-19 infections in India are doubling every 4-5 days and this has now led to the reporting of over 5,000 covid cases each day New Delhi : India recorded 5,880 new reported covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of active cases to 35199, the union health ministry said on Monday.
The daily positivity rate has reached 6.91%, while weekly positivity rate hit 3.67%. The country has reported 44.9 million covid cases so far and 530,979 deaths.
According to epidemiologists, covid-19 infections in India are doubling every 4-5 days and this has now led to the reporting of over 5,000 covid cases each day.
Scientists have said that the XBB.1.16 variant of coronavirus is responsible for the current surge in cases. But, the infection is said to be mild 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.