New Delhi December 28 2023: India saw a single day rise of 702 cases of Covid-19, with the number of active cases of the infection rising to 4,097, the health ministry said on Thursday.
Six new fatalities — two from Maharashtra and one each from Karanataka, Kerala, West Bengal, and Delhi — were reported in a span of 24 hours, according to the ministry’s data updated at 8 am.
The country had recorded 752 new cases on December 22. The number of daily cases had dropped to double-digits by December 5, but the cases have again gone up after emergence of a new variant and cold weather conditions.