9,195 new COVID-19 cases in India, Omicron tally rises to 781

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New Delhi
 
India has reported 9,195 new COVID-19 cases and 302 deaths in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Wednesday.
The new cases took the country's COVID-19 case tally to 3,48,08,886 while the death toll climbed to 4,80,592. The Ministry said that India's active caseload presently is at 77,002 which is 0.22 per cent of the country's total positive cases, the lowest since March 2020.
The health ministry also said that there are 781 Omicron cases in India so far with Delhi accounting for the highest number with 283  followed by Maharashtra (167), Gujarat (73), Kerala (65), Telangana (62), Rajasthan (46), Karnataka (34), Tamil Nadu (34), Haryana (12), West Bengal (11), Madhya Pradesh (9), Odisha (8), Andhra Pradesh (6), Uttarakhand (4), Chandigarh (3), Jammu and Kashmir (3), Uttar Pradesh (2), Goa (1), Himachal Pradesh (1), Ladakh (1) and Manipur (1).
 
A total of 7,347 patients have recovered in the last 24 hours taking the cumulative tally of COVID recovered patients, since the beginning of the pandemic to 3,42, 51,292.
 
The current recovery rate is at 98.40 per cent which is the highest since the pandemic began
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The weekly positivity rate is at 0.68 per cent and has remained less than 1 per cent for the last 45 days now.
 
The daily positivity rate is at 0.79 per cent and has remained below 2 per cent for the last 86 days.
 
India conducted 11,67,612 COVID-19 tests in the last 24 hours, and so far the country has conducted 67,52,46,143 tests according to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) data.
 
India has administered a total of 143.15 crore vaccine doses so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive.