Hello and welcome to our special coverage of the spread of the coronavirus in india let's get you the latest figures india has reported a 21 jump in covet cases in a day india has reported 27 thousand five hundred and fifty three covet cases in the last 24 hours india's omicron tally is up to 1525 with maharashtra being the worst hit as covet cases rise bengal is to close schools from tomorrow that is Monday all offices are to work with 50 staff only 50 people are to be allowed at weddings and social gatherings karnataka has reported 1187 new covet cases 923 of them are from bangaluru alone and in view of the rising cases the supreme court is now going to be working virtually for the next two weeks at least meanwhile delhi logged 303 000 I beg your pardon 194 new coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours that's 15 percent higher than yesterday remember the capital logged 2176 cases on new year's day that was a 50 percent spike the positivity rate in the national capital has now risen to 4.59 all of this is according to data from the city's health department today's figure is the highest daily surge since may 22nd cities also reported the second highest cases of the highly transmissible omicron strain after maharashtra the number of active coronavirus patients in delhi now at eight thousand three hundred and ninety seven the highest in about seven months but the delhi chief minister alvin k g val says that though the number of cases are rising rapidly there's no need to panic because data indicates that the impact of the virus in this phase is far lesser than what was during the second wave he says meanwhile maharashtra has reported nearly 12 000 new coronavirus cases of this mumbai has reported eight thousand of these cases eight thousand sixty three new cases of the corona virus to be precise that's in 24 hours that's a 27 percent higher than yesterday the good news though is that no deaths have been reported so the big story at this and the big question is india going through an omicron wave one that we don't seem to be acknowledging while the official figures suggest that omicron is less than two percent of india's total cobit cases this could be a massive underestimation here's an ndtv report based on exclusive information researched by maher pandey and saurabh gupta which points to a major omicron health crisis that could hit india very soon now omicron is perhaps the dominant cobit variant now in india while the official number of omicron cases in india is estimated to be nearly 1500 in reality it could be more than 10 times this official number as high as 18 000 with the number shooting up every day.
