New Delhi, Jan 6: India has seen an increase in COVID-19 cases in a single day of 774, with 4,187 active cases as of Saturday, according to the Union health ministry. According to data updated by the ministry at 8 am, two deaths were reported in a span of 24 hours, one from Gujarat and one from Tamil Nadu. Up until December 5, there were double digits of cases per day. However, due to the cold weather and the appearance of a new COVID-19 variant, JN.1, the number of cases started to rise once more. According to official sources, the greatest single-day increase of 841 cases after December 5 was recorded on December 31, 2023, or 0.2% of the peak cases recorded in May 2021.More than 92% of the 4,187 active cases are being treated at home in isolation. “The currently available data suggests that the JN.1 variant is not causing an exponential rise in new cases nor a surge in hospitalisation and mortality,” an official source stated. Three waves of COVID-19 have struck India in the past; the Delta wave, which is expected to last from April to June 2021, had the highest daily case and fatality rate. On May 7, 2021, 4,14,188 cases and 3,915 deaths were recorded, marking the peak. Over 4.5 crore people have been infected and over 5.3 lakh have died nationwide since the pandemic started in early 2020.According to the ministry’s website, over 4.4 crore people have recovered from the illness, meaning that the country’s recovery rate is 98.81 percent. The website states that 220.67 crore doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been given nationwide thus far.
