India reported a single-day rise of 1,27,952 new Covid-19 cases Saturday, registering a decline from Friday’s 1,49,394 new infections. 

The Union Health Ministry update also said that the country sae 1,059 deaths in the last 24 hours. 

The number of active cases now stands at 13,31,648. India’s overall death toll crossed 5 lakh, while the daily positivity rate stood at 7.98%.

Meanwhile, China, which is hosting the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, detected 45 new cases of Covid-19 among Olympic Games-related personnel on February 4, up from 21 a day earlier, according to the organising committee. 

Of the total infections, 26 were among new airport arrivals, including 20 athletes or team officials. The remaining 19 were already in the “closed-loop” bubble that separates event personnel from the public, according to a notice on the Games’ official website.

In the US, the coronavirus pandemic reached a grim new milestone with the nation’s cumulative death toll from Covid-19 surpassing 9,00,000, even as the daily number of lives lost has begun to level off, according to data collected by Reuters. 

The latest tally marks an increase of more than 1,00,000 US Covid-19 fatalities since December 12, coinciding with a surge of infections and hospitalisations driven by the highly contagious Omicron variant of the virus.

Source: NDTV

BDST: 1230 HRS, FEB 05, 2022
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