New Delhi: The Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) under the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported five deaths due to Covid in the last 24 hours in the country. A total of 511 cases of the JN.1 series variant have been reported from 11 states till January 2, 2024. Nearly 602 new cases have been registered in the last 24 hours, and the total number of cases stood at cases are 4,50,15,136, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. The active caseload stood at 4,440, which showed a decrease of 125 since Tuesday.
Around 722 people recovered in the last 24 hours and the total recovered cases stood at 4,44,77,272.
State-wise distribution indicated two deaths in Kerala in the last 24 hours. The deceased has been identified as a 66-year-old male with Chronic Liver Disease, Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS), and Sepsis and a 79-year-old female with coronary artery disease (CAD), T2DM, and Sepsis.
India has logged 636 new cases of COVID-19, while the number of active cases of the infection have increased to 4,394, the health ministry said on Monday (Januray 1). Three new fatalities due to Covid– two from Kerala and one from Tamil Nadu — have been reported in a span of 24 hours, according to the ministry’s data updated at 8 am. The number of daily cases had dropped to double-digits till December 5 last year, but cases have again gone up after emergence of a new variant and cold weather conditions.
The daily numbers were in lakhs at the peak of the pandemic, which began in early 2020 and has seen more than 4.5 crore people getting infected and over 5.3 lakh deaths in about four years since then across the country.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease stands at over 4.4 crore with a national recovery rate of 98.81 per cent, according to the ministry’s website. According to the website, 220.67 crore doses of Covid vaccines have so far been administered in the country.
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Among all the states, Karnataka has reported the highest number of coronavirus cases. The state government has reported one death due to Covid in the last 24 hours. A total of 148 positive cases were reported in the last 24 hours. The deceased has been identified as a 45-year-old male from Vijayanagar.
The total number of 7305 tests were done in the last 24 hours and the positivity rate stood at 2.02 per cent, the Department of Health and Family Welfare said.
A total of 1144 active cases were reported in the state till Tuesday and the case fatality rate stood at 0.67 per cent. On Tuesday 55 people were hospitalised and 1089 patients were isolated in their homes.
The total number of active cases in Bengaluru Rural was stated to be 28 while in Bengaluru Urban it was 545 as of January 2.
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