There were 37,379 new cases reported over a 24-hour period, government data showed Tuesday.
government data showed Tuesday
. That was the highest reported figure since September and marked a sharp jump from the 6,358 cases reported a week earlier on Dec. 28. The state of Maharashtra, which is home to India's financial hub Mumbai, has so far detected 568 cases of the omicron variant while the capital territory of Delhi reported 382 cases. Together, they account for around half of all cases in India attributed to the new heavily mutated strain.
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