Kathmandu, January 19
In neighboring India, more than 282,000 new corona infections have been reported in a single day. Which is 18.9 percent more than yesterday.
In the last 24 hours, 282,970 new cases have been reported, according to the Union Ministry of Health. According to the ministry, 441 infected people died during the period.
Karnataka tops the list of five most infected states in the last 24 hours. There are 41,457 newly infected people added.
Similarly, in the last 24 hours, 39 thousand 207 people have been confirmed to have covid
infection in Maharashtra which is in the second place. In Kerala 28 thousand 481, in Tamil Nadu 23 thousand 888 and in Gujarat 17 thousand 119 new infected people have been added.
So far, the number of people infected with the corona virus in India has exceeded 37.9 million.
Out of this, 35.5 million infected people have been cured. In addition, the total number of
deaths due to covid infection has reached 4 lakh 87 thousand 202.
The number of active infections is also increasing in India. Currently, the number of active
infected has increased to 1.83 million. The daily infection rate has also increased to 15.13
percent, according to Indian media.
Infected variants of the new Omicron variant of Covid-19 rose 0.79 percent to 8,961 compared to Tuesday, according to the health ministry.
By Karuna Thapa
