Omicron Coronavirus Live Updates: India Adds Most Fresh Cases In Three Months

India added as many as 22,775 fresh infections in the last 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry.

Nishant Sharma @nishantstv

01 Jan 2022, 10:34 AM IST

<div class="paragraphs"><p>Technicians extract RNA from Covid-19 samples at the Covid-19 Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory at the Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University. Photographer: Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg</p></div>

Technicians extract RNA from Covid-19 samples at the Covid-19 Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory at the Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University. Photographer: Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg

India added the most fresh coronavirus infections in nearly three months at a time when the Omicron variant is spreading fast across the country.

The world's second-most populous nation added as many as 22,775 fresh infections in the last 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry's update at 8 a.m. on Jan. 1. That compares with 8,949 recoveries during the same period.

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Key Figures

Total number of confirmed coronavirus cases: 3,48,61,579.

Total number of active cases: 1,04,781.

Cured/discharged/migrated patients: 3,42,75,312.

Deaths: 4,81,486.

Number of fresh cases in last 24 hours: 22,775.

One-day recoveries: 8,949.

One-day deaths: 406.