Coronavirus Reside Updates: India Reviews 2,64,202 New Covid Instances, 6.7% Upper Than Thursday

New Delhi:

India reported 2,64,202 recent COVID-19 infections in 24 hours, mentioned the Ministry of Well being and Circle of relatives Welfare on Friday, taking the entire case tally within the nation to a few,65,82,129.

The brand new circumstances mark a 6.7 in step with cent leap from the two.47 lakh day by day circumstances reported on Thursday. A complete of five,753 Omicron circumstances are among all Covid circumstances reported in India up to now.

The day by day positivity fee was once recorded at 14.78 in step with cent — up from 13.11% on Thursday — whilst the weekly positivity fee was once recorded at 11.83 in step with cent.

The rustic additionally reported 315 new deaths, taking the entire fatalities in India to 485,350, whilst energetic circumstances rose to 12,72,073.

The energetic circumstances contain 3.48 in step with cent of the entire infections, whilst the nationwide COVID-19 restoration fee lowered to 95.2 in step with cent, the ministry mentioned on Friday.

Listed here are the Reside Updates on coronavirus circumstances in India:

West Bengal BJP Writes To State Election Fee In the hunt for Postponement Of Civic Polls Amid Surge In COVID-19 Instances

In view of the surge in COVID-19 circumstances, the West Bengal BJP on Friday wrote to the State Election Fee (SEC) asking for to delay the municipality elections for a month.

“We wish to upload because the notification of mentioned elections on December 28, 2021, as in step with the Bulletin of the Division of Well being and Circle of relatives Welfare, Executive of West Bengal, the day by day reported COVID circumstances jumped from 732 to 23,467 on 13 January 2022,” it mentioned.

The BJP mentioned that the positivity fee has additionally jumped from 2.35 in step with cent on 28 December 2021 to 32.13 in step with cent on 13 January 2022 within the state.