Most cases were out of them were reported from Maharashtra and Delhi with 460 and 351 respectively. Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala have all reported more than 100 cases of the new variant, ANI reported.
Notably, 23 states in India have reported the fast-spreading Omicron strain while a further 560 people have reportedly been discharged after recovering.
Apart from that, India reported a total of 27,553 fresh infections of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the active caseload to 1,22,801 in the country. India also reported 284 deaths during that time.
The country also reported a 21 percent jump in new Covid-19 cases
Twenty-three states in India have reported the fast-spreading Omicron variant so far. Maharashtra, which has reported the most number of COVID-10 cases, has 460 Omicron cases, followed by Delhi with 351 infections.
