India has recorded 188 new cases of Covid, while♐ the number of active cases of the infection stood at 1,473, the healt༒h ministry said on Sunday.
No deaths have been reported in a span of 24 hours, according to the miꦇnistry's data upda🃏ted at 8 am.
The number of daily cases had dropped to double-digits till December 5, 2023 but ꧂cases had begun to increase after emergence of a new variant and coꦇld weather conditions.
After Decem🦩ber 5, 2023 a maximum of 841 new cases were reported on December 31, 2023 which was 0.2 per cent of the peak cases reported in☂ May 2021, official sources said.
"The currently available data suggests that the JN.1 variant is neither🌞 leading to an exponential rise in new cases nor a surge in hospitalisation and mortality," the sources stated.
India has witnessed three waves ofও COVID-19 in the past with the peak incidence of daily new cases and deaths being reported during the Delta wave in April-June 2021.
At iꦆts peak, 414,188 new cases and 3,915 deaths were reported on May 7, 2021.
Sinc the pℱandemic began in early ꦜ2020, more than 4.5 crore people have got infected and over 5.3 lakh have died due to the virus.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease stands at over 4.4 crore with a national recovery rate of 98.81 per cent, according to t♔he ministry's website.
According to the website, 220.67 crore doses of Covid vaccines have so fa♍r been administered in the country.
