Huge jump in corona cases / 45 thousand more patients than yesterday, 441 died, active patients crossed 18 lakh

After four consecutive days of relief in the country, today suddenly there has been a huge jump in the cases of corona. According to Wednesday's data released by the Ministry of Health, two lakh 82 thousand 970 (2,82,970) new cases have been reported in the country in the last 24 hours, which is 45 thousand more than Tuesday. At the same time, 441 people have died due to corona in the last 24 hours. The most worrying thing is that more than 18 lakh people (18,31,000) are still infected in the country. However, during this one lakh 88 thousand 157 people (1, 88,157) people also became healthy. The daily positivity rate in the country has now increased to 15.13 percent. The recovery rate of people in the country is more than 95 percent. So far 159 crore vaccines have been given under nationwide immunization.

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Omicron cases close to 9000

The cases of Corona's new variant Omicron Cases In India are also increasing continuously. So far, a total of 8,961 cases of Omicron have been reported in the country. Omicron cases have increased by about 2 percent in the last 24 hours.