New Delhi, Jan 16 : The health ministry announced that India recorded 180 new cases of COVID-19, with the number of active cases decreasing to 2,804. In the last 24 hours, three deaths were reported in Maharashtra, as per the updated data at 8 am.
Daily cases had dwindled to double digits until December 5, 2023, but began rising again due to the emergence of a new variant and cold weather conditions. On December 31, 2023, there was a single-day rise of 841 new cases, constituting 0.2% of the peak cases reported in May 2021, according to official sources.
Of the total active cases, approximately 92% are recovering under home isolation. The available data indicates that the JN.1 variant is not causing an exponential rise in new cases, hospitalizations, or mortality, according to official sources.
India has experienced three waves of COVID-19, with the Delta wave peaking in April-June 2021, reporting 4,14,188 new cases and 3,915 deaths on May 7, 2021. Since the start of the pandemic in early 2020, over 4.5 crore people have been infected, and more than 5.3 lakh people have died in the country due to the infection.
The number of recoveries from the disease exceeds 4.4 crore, resulting in a national recovery rate of 98.81%, as reported on the ministry’s website. The country has administered 220.67 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines, according to the website.
