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India News: India has reported 702 new Covid-19 cases and 6 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the total count to 4,50,10,944 and the death toll to 5,33,346. D
Talking to PTI Video, he said the government has ramped up Covid testing, with 636 tests conducted on Wednesday.
India reported 702 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, with the active caseload reaching 4,097. Six deaths were recorded during this period. The total COVID-19 cases in India since January 2020 have now surpassed 4.5 million, with 702 new cases reported recently.
"I have reiterated the directions for genome sequencing of all the positive cases, so that the number of cases of new variants can be confirmed. Yesterday, three variants were confirmed, of which two were of the old Omicron variant and the new one is JN.1 variant. The good thing is that the patient diagnosed with the new variant, who was hospitalised, has been discharged," he told PTI Video.
Six new fatalities were reported in the past 24 hours: two from Maharashtra, and one each from Karnataka, Kerala, West Bengal, and Delhi