India’s COVID-19 cases triple in last 5 days, total Omicron cases cross the 3000-mark

• India records over 1,17,100 fresh COVID-19 cases, a massive surge in the daily tally.
• The Omicron tally in India also climbed to 3,007 cases with 1,199 people already recovered so far.
• Around 30,836 people have been recovered so far in the last 24 hours.

India registered a massive surge in the daily tally of COVID-19 cases, seeing a jump to 1,17,100 new cases, 28% higher than the previous day. Around 302 people succumbed to COVID-19 in the last one day, revealed the Union Health Ministry on Thursday.

Date	COVID-19 cases registered
January 7	1,17,100
January 6	90,928
January 5	58,097
January 4	37,379
January 3	33,750

Currently, the active caseload of the country stands at 3,71,363 cases, which is 85,962 more than yesterday.

Around 30,836 people have been recovered so far in the last 24 hours. The recovery rate also stands at 97.81%, according to the data by the Union Health Ministry.

The Omicron tally in India also climbed to 3,007 cases with 1,199 people already recovered so far. Maharashtra remains to be the worst-hit state with 876 Omicron cases, followed by Delhi with 465 cases and Karnataka with 333 cases.

Meanwhile, the daily positivity rate currently stands at 7.74%, and weekly positivity rate climbed to 3.47% as the country is witnessing a sudden surge in COVID-19 cases.

India has inoculated 149.66 crore COVID-19 doses so far.

More than 18.14 crore balance and unutilised COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with the states and union territories to be administered, according to the health ministry as of Friday morning.

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