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On Saturday, India has registered 8,603 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the total tally of Covid-19 cases to 3,46,24,360, as per the health ministry bulletin. The country also recorded 415 fresh fatalities, pushing the total death count to 4,70,530. With 8,190 people recoveries in the last 24 hours, the caseload of total recoveries has reached to 3,40,53,856. Currently, the recovery rate stands at 98.35 per cent.

Country's active caseload currently stands at 99,974. Active cases account for less than 1 per cent of total cases, currently at 0.29 per cent. Active cases are also at the lowest since March 2020, said the ministry. The daily positivity rate (0.69 per cent) is less than 2 per cent for the last 61 days. Weekly positivity rate (0.81 per cent) less than 1 per cent for the last 20 days. Around  126.53 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered under nationwide vaccination drive till date. 

Omicron Variant 

India for the first time reported 'Omicron' cases with 2 cases being detected in Karnataka. The new strain of the virus has triggered a global alarm with several countries announcing restrictions to arrest the spread of the 'Variant of Concern', declared by the World Health Organization (WHO). 

Mucormycosis 

On Friday, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya informed the Lok Sabha that a total of 51,775 cases of mucormycosis have been reported till November 29.