NEW DELHI, Jan 9: The health ministry reported on Tuesday that there were 475 new instances of Covid in India, bringing the total number of active cases to 3,919. The ministry’s statistics updated at 8 am shows that six deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours, three from Karnataka, two from Chhattisgarh, and one from Assam. Up until December 5, 2023, the number of daily cases had fallen to double digits; however, instances started to rise as a new variation emerged and the temperature plummeted.According to government sources, on December 31, 2023, 841 additional cases were reported after December 5, accounting for 0.2% of the peak occurrences reported in May 2021. In all, there are currently 92% of active cases that are being treated at home by specialists. According to the sources, “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.”There have been three waves of COVID-19 in India, with the Delta wave in April–June 2021 seeing the highest number of daily new cases and deaths. On May 7, 2021, the number of new cases and deaths was 4,14,188, the highest ever. Over 4.5 crore people have been afflicted and over 5.3 lakh have perished nationwide since the outbreak started in early 2020. According to the ministry’s website, nearly 4.4 crore individuals have recovered from the illness, meaning that the country’s recovery rate is 98.81 percent.As per the website, the nation has administered 220.67 crore doses of the Covid vaccination so far.
