India has reported a huge downfall in daily Covid-19 cases as the country logged 7,178 fresh cases in the past 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. This drop comes a day after the country reported 10,112 infections yesterday. The active cases in the country dropped to 65,683 from 67,806.
The death toll in the country increased to 5,31,345 with 16 deaths, which includes eight reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at 8 am stated. The daily positivity rate has been recorded at 9.16 per cent and the weekly positivity rate was pegged at 5.41 per cent.
With the uptick in the trend of Corona cases, scientists said that XBB.1.16 is the Corona variant responsible for the present surge in Covid cases. However, scientists say that people in India have developed hybrid immunity (due to vaccination and natural infection)
