According to epidemiologists, covid cases have been doubling every four to five days. Scientists have said that the XBB.1.16 variant of coronavirus is responsible for the current surge.
New Delhi: India reported 7,178 covid cases and 16 deaths in the last 24 hours, the union health ministry data said on Monday.
While the daily positivity rate has reached 9.16%, the weekly positivity rate stood at 5.41 %. Active covid cases have reached 65,683.
In the last three years of the pandemic, India has reported to more than 44.9 million cases and 531345 covid related deaths.