Coronavirus has once again started spreading rapidly in the country. For the last few days, more than ten thousand new cases are coming to the fore every day. With this, deaths are also increasing. Talking about the last 24 hours, more than 12 thousand new cases have come to the fore. With this, 42 people have also died. This figure is frightening.
Experts have already predicted that the number of corona cases is going to increase rapidly in May. With this, the number of new cases increasing daily is very worrying.
The Union Health Ministry said on Saturday that 12,193 fresh Covid cases have been registered in India in a span of 24 hours. With this, the number of active cases of Corona has increased to 67,556. According to the updated data released by the ministry at 8 am, the death toll due to Covid-19 is 42.
With this, the figure for total deaths has gone up to 5,31,300. Ten cases of deaths from Corona are from Kerala. The total number of cases of Covid infection has increased to 4,48,81,877.
According to the Health Ministry website, the total number of active cases is only 0.15% of the total caseload. While the national covid recovery rate is 98.66 percent.
The number of people recovering from the virus has increased to 4,42,83,021. While the death rate is 1.18 percent. Apart from this, the website reports that 220.66 crore doses of vaccine have been given to people across the country.
Medical experts believe that the reason for the surge in corona cases in the country is the sub-variant XBB.1.16 of Omicron. However, now there is a mutation in this sub-variant and another new sub-variant XBB.1.16.1 is ready.
On behalf of the Consortium INSACOG, which monitors the variant of Corona, it has been said that so far more than 436 cases of XBB.1.16.1 have been reported across the country. These cases have been seen in 18 states including Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delhi, and Haryana.
The XBB.1.16 variant was revealed in January this year When it was confirmed in two samples. According to INSACOG, 2,735 cases of the XBB.1.16 variant have been reported in 24 states.
