New Delhi: The highly infectious variant of Covid-19 – omicron spreads very fast in India as the Health Ministry on Friday confirmed that 1270 omicron cases and 16764 fresh cases registered in the last 24 hours.
Maharashtra State has reported the most number of coronavirus cases – in which 450 cases are of the new variant. 125 people have recovered in the state so far.
Gujarat has 97 cases and 42 people have recovered so far, neighbouring Rajasthan has 69 cases of the new strain and 47 recoveries.
India also reported a 27 percent jump in fresh COVID-19 cases as it reported 16,764 fresh infections today. About 5,368 new coronavirus infections were reported from Maharashtra, which reported 37 percent higher cases than the day before.
Altogether, 374 people have recovered in the country from the new strain since it was first reported around late November.
(Vinayak)
