India records 160 new COVID-19 cases, active tally at 1,886

India has logged 160 new COVID19 cases while the number of active cases of the infection stood at 1886 the health ministry said on Wednesday reported news agency PTITwo new deaths one each from Karnataka and Kerala have been reported in a span of 24 hours according to the ministrys data updated at 8 am reported PTIThe number of daily cases had dropped to doubledigits till December 5 2023 but they again began to increase after emergence of a new variant and cold weather conditionsA single day rise of 841 new cases were reported on December 31 2023 which is 02 per cent of the peak cases reported in May 2021 official sources said reported PTIOf the total active cases a large majority of these around 92 per cent are recovering under home isolationThe currently available data suggests that the JN1 variant is neither leading to an exponential rise in new cases nor a surge in hospitalisation and mortality the sources stated reported PTIIndia has witnessed three waves of COVID19 in the past with the peak incidence of daily new cases and deaths being reported in the Delta wave during AprilJune 2021At its peak 414188 new COVID19 cases and 3915 deaths were reported on May 7 2021Since the pandemic began in early 2020 more than 45 crore people have got infected and over 53 lakh people have died across the country due to the infectionThe number of people who have recuperated from the disease stands at over 44 crore with a national recovery rate of 9881 per cent according to the ministrys websiteAccording to the website 22067 crore doses of Covid vaccines have so far been administered in the countryMeanwhile at least 90 per cent of Taiwans population has likely contracted COVID19 the Centres for Disease Control CDC said Tuesday citing a seroprevalence study last year that looked into the prevalence of the disease and the recent spike in cases reported ANIThe CDC which tested 7000 randomly selected blood donation samples collected in Taiwan between January and June found that nearly 80 percent came from people who had contracted COVID19 CDC Deputy Director General Lo Yichun said in a weekly briefing reported ANIConsidering the recent rise in COVID19 cases which had eased before starting to spike again at the beginning of this year around 90 per cent of the population has likely been infected he said reported ANIThe CDC explained that the study which was conducted per World Health Organisation WHO guidelines tested for a neutralising antibody the body produces following COVID19 exposure reported ANIWith inputs from PTI and ANI