Over 200 new Omicron cases reported in India in last 24 hours, tally reaches 1431

Jan. 1: India’s Omicron tally on Saturday reached 1,431, with Maharashtra recording the highest cases at 454, followed by Delhi at 351, Tamil Nadu 118, Gujarat 115 and Kerala 109. Meanwhile, India recorded 22-775 new Covid-19 cases and 406 deaths due to the infection in the last 24 hours, the Union health ministry said in its update on Saturday.

India reported its second Omicron death from Udaipur in Rajasthan on Friday. The 73-year-old was also suffering from hypertension and diabetes. Earlier on Thursday,  a 52-year-old man who had tested positive for the new variant of coronavirus died of a cardiac arrest in the Pimpri district of Maharashtra.