India’s total COVID-19 fatalities rise to 476,869

India Friday reported 7,447 new COVID-19 cases and 391 fatalities, taking the cumulative caseload to 34,726,049 (86,415 active cases) and fatalities to 476,869.

Worldwide: Over 273 million cases and over 5.33 million fatalities.

Vaccination in India: 1,359,996,267 doses.

Vaccination worldwide: Nearly 8.6 billion doses.

India’s caseload of Omicron infections touched 97 after detection of 10 new cases from Delhi, Times of India reported.

In Gujarat , a 43-year old woman in the state’s Mehsana district with no history of travel tested positive for Omicron.

Maharashtra leads with 32 cases, followed by Rajasthan with 17 cases and Delhi with 10 cases, with a Hong Kong study pointing out that the Omicron variant spreads 70 times faster than the Delta variant or the original coronavirus strain.