Omicron spread: Daily Covid-19 cases set to cross 100,000 mark in India

Positivity rate above 6.4%; Centre asks states to re-establish district control rooms

The daily Covid cases in India are expected to cross 100,000 from more than 90,928 recorded on Thursday, according to the data shared by the health ministry on January 6.

The rapid rise, spurred by the highly transmissible Omicron variant, has pushed the daily positivity rate above 6.4 per cent and the weekly positivity rate to 3.47 per cent.

Thursday’s case count was close to the peak levels seen during the first wave.

India’s active caseload too has increased by 33 per cent to 285,401 as of Thursday.

While the positivity rate has increased, the fatality rate is below 2