Surge in omicron cases in Delhi

Shubhadeep Choudhury    

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Tribune News Service 

New Delhi, December 27

Delhi is witnessing a surge in the highly transmissible omicron variant of Covid infection with the number of cases shooting up to 142 from 79 recorded on Sunday morning.

According to the Health Ministry data released on Monday morning, next to Delhi is Maharashtra with 141 omicron cases. Kerala is in the third position with 57 cases.

Total number of omicron cases across the country has risen to 578 as against 422 reported on Sunday morning. Besides Delhi, Kerala and Rajasthan also saw a significant increase in omicron infection cases. The number rose to 57 in Kerala on Monday from 38 on Sunday. In Rajasthan, omicron cases rose to 43 on Monday from 22 on Sunday.

Madhya Pradesh, which did not figure in the data released on Sunday morning, showed having nine omicron cases on Monday. Himachal Pradesh also made an entry in today’s chart with one omicron case. However, the lone case in the hill state has been shown to have either recovered or have left the state.

Delhi had imposed night curfew on Sunday in view of the prevalence of Covid cases.

According to the Health Ministry, 6,531 new cases of Covid infection were registered in the last 24 hours. Daily positivity rate is less than two per cent for last 84 days, while the weekly positivity rate is less than one per cent for last 43days, the Ministry said.