New Delhi: India reported a sharp rise of over 9,629 covid cases in the last 24 hours, the union health ministry data showed on Wednesday.
The daily positivity rate has reached 5.38%, while the weekly positivity rate stood at 5.61%. Active covid cases have reached 61,013.
In the last three years of the pandemic, India has reported more than 44.9 million covid cases and 531,398 deaths. Karnataka reported 1,895 active cases, Kerala 1,5169 active cases, Maharashtra has 5,549 active cases, Gujarat 1,762 cases, Delhi recorded 4,995 cases, Tamil Nadu 3,585 active cases; Himachal Pradesh 1,270 cases, Haryana 5,011 cases, Chhattisgarh 3,025 cases, Rajasthan 3,549 and Uttar Pradesh with 4,257 cases so far.
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 in cases.