Coronavirus Omicron in India News Highlights 8 January 2022: Telangana reports 2606 new coronavirus cases

Coronavirus Omicron Updates today News on 8 January 2022: Latest news updates of happenings from around the world, with special focus on India, Hyderabad, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh. From daily coronavirus news about the probable third wave, the number of infections, vaccination and night curfew.

Coronavirus in India: India reported 1,41,986 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the daily positivity rate in the country to 9.28 per cent, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Saturday. With this, the country's COVID-19 case tally has gone up to 3,53,68,372. According to Health Ministry, the country has so far reported 3,071 cases of Omicron of which 1,203 have been recovered.

Coronavirus in Andhra Pradesh: Andhra Pradesh's COVID-19 count rose to 20,80,602 with another 839 fresh cases added on Saturday.

According to the latest bulletin, 150 infected persons got cured in the 24 hours ending 9 am today, making it a total of 20,62,440 recoveries.

Two more deaths took the death toll to 14,503.

The active caseload increased to 3,659, the bulletin added.

Chittoor district registered the highest number of 175 fresh cases, followed by Visakhapatnam with 174.

Krishna added 79, East Godavari 78, Guntur 67, SPS Nellore 61, while the remaining seven districts logged less than 50 new cases each.

Consequently, the active cases shot up to 771 in Visakhapatnam, the highest now in the state, followed by Chittoor 659 and Krishna 476.

Kurnool district, which saw the active coronavirus cases fall to the lowest of three, now has 69.

Srikakulam and West Godavari districts recorded one fresh fatality each in a day.

Coronavirus in Telangana: Telangana recorded 2,606 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Saturday. Out of the total 73,156 samples tested today, 3.5% tested positive.

Meanwhile 285 people recovered from the infection and 2 died due to the infection on Saturday.

GHMC contributed around 60% of the positive cases i.e; 1,583 cases.

Covid cases in Medchal Malkajgiri and Rangareddy districts are also found to be increasing.

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