Covid cases have been increasing across the country with Karnataka reporting 613 active cases while Kerala has 2,090 active cases New Delhi: India reported 1,249 new covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours with daily positivity rate at 1.19%, the union health ministry said on Friday.
The country has recorded more than 44.8 million covid cases and 530,818 deaths so far. Covid cases have been increasing across the country with Karnataka reporting 613 active cases while Kerala has 2,090 active cases.
Maharashtra has 1617 active cases, Gujarat with 1179 cases, Delhi has recorded 346 cases, Tamil Nadu has 517 active cases; Telangana with 146 cases so far.
Scientists said that XBB.1.16 is the covid-19 variant responsible for present surge in covid cases. However, they said people in India have developed hybrid immunity (due to vaccination and natural infection), therefore, the present covid-19 variants will not lead to hospitlaistaion and severity as it is mild in nature.