Covid-19 active caseload reaches 7,121 in India

India has seen an uptick in Covid-19 cases over the past few weeks. As of Thursday morning, 7,121 active Covid-19 cases have been reported in the country, NDTV reports.

Amid the ongoing resurgence, 6 Covid-related deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours. Kerala remains the most affected state with 2,223 active cases, followed by Gujarat (1,223), Delhi (757), West Bengal (747), and Maharashtra (615).

Earlier, Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Dr Rajiv Behl said that Omicron Sub-variants LF.7, XFG, JN.1, and NB. 1.8.1 are currently circulating in India.

As of June 9, 163 cases of the new Covid variant XFG were detected across India, as per Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) data.

While Maharashtra reported the highest number of XFG cases with 89 infections, a few cases were reported in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Gujarat, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh.