Coronavirus Omicron in India News Highlights 17 January 2022: Telangana records 2447 new COVID-19 cases

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Coronavirus in India: India reported 2,58,089 fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed on Monday.

With this, the total number of COVID-19 infections in the country moved up to 3,73,80,253 including 16,56,341 active cases. Active cases account for 4.43 per cent of the total infections.

Of the total cases, 8,209 total Omicron cases have been detected so far which is an increase of 6.02 per cent since yesterday. The daily positivity rate is 19.65 per cent.

Coronavirus in Andhra Pradesh: Andhra Pradesh reported 4108 fresh Coronavirus cases taking the total tally to 21,10,388 cases across the state. While coming to fatalities, no death reported on Monday taking the toll to 14510. On the other hand, as many as 696 new patients were cured in the last twenty four hours taking the total recoveries to 20,65,696 and there are currently 30,182 active cases. According to district-wise data, Visakhapatnam district reported 1018 new infections, followed by Chittoor 1004 and Guntur 345 while West Godavari has logged the least cases with 46 new cases in the last twenty-four hours.

Coronavirus in Telangana: Telangana continued to record a spike in COVID-19 cases with 2,447 infections reported in the state on Monday taking the coronavirus tally to 7,11,656 while the death toll rose to 4,060 with three more fatalities.

Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) reported the highest number of fresh cases with 1,112, followed by Medchal Malkajgiri (235) and Ranga Reddy (183) district, a state government bulletin said, providing details as of 5.30 pm. As many as 2,295 people recovered from the infection on Monday. The cumulative number of recoveries till date was 6,85,399.

The number of active cases stood at 22,197, the bulletin said.

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