India recorded 2,68,833 new COVID-19 cases, and 402 deaths in the last 24 hours, data from the Union Health Ministry confirmed on Saturday. India’s total infection tally has now reached 3,68,50,962, with the death toll pushed to 4,85,752.

The daily rise in COVID cases was up by 4,631, compared to yesterday. The number of confirmed omicron cases in the country has increased to 6,041 after another 288 were detected in the last 24 hours, the ministry added. 

Active cases have increased by 1,45,747 to 14,17,820 and comprise 3.85% of the total caseload. 

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1,22,684 patients recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 3,49,47,390. The national recovery rate stands at 94.83%. The case mortality rate stands at 1.32%. 

Data from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) confirmed a total of 70,07,12,824 samples have been tested for COVID-19 so far. 16,13,740 of those were tesed in the last 24 hours.

The daily positivity rate was 16.66% while the weekly positivity rate was 12.84%.

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The cumulative COVID vaccination count across the country has reached 1,56,02,51,117 after 58,02,976 doses were administered in the last 24 hours.

India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19. The country crossed the grim milestone of two crore on May 4 last year and three crore on June 23, 2021.

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The 402 new fatalities include 199 from Kerala and 34 from Delhi.

Of the total deaths reported so far in the country, 1,41,756 are from Maharashtra, 50,568 from Kerala, 38,411 from Karnataka, 36,956 from Tamil Nadu, 25,305 from Delhi, 22,949 from Uttar Pradesh and 20,013 from West Bengal.