India’s new COVID-19 cases dip over 6%, Omicron tally reaches 4,461

• India records over 1,68,063 fresh COVID-19 cases and 277 deaths in the last 24 hours.
• The Omicron tally in India also climbed to 4,461 cases.
• Around 69,959 people have been recovered so far in the last 24 hours.

India registered 1,68,063 new COVID-19 cases, 6.4% lower than the previous day. Around 277 people succumbed to COVID-19 in the last one day, taking the tally to 4,84,213, revealed the country’s health ministry on Tuesday.

Date	COVID-19 cases registered
January 11	1,68,063
January 10	1,79,000
January 9	1,59,632
January 8	1,41,986
January 7	1,17,100
January 6	90,928

Currently, the active caseload of the country stands at 8,21,446 cases, which is 97,827 more than yesterday.

Around 69,959 people have been recovered so far in the last 24 hours. The recovery rate also stands at 96.36%, according to the data by the Union Health Ministry.

The Omicron tally in India also climbed to 4,461 cases reported in 28 states with Maharashtra remaining to be the worst-hit state with 1,247 Omicron cases, followed by Rajasthan with 645 cases and Delhi with 546 cases.

Meanwhile, the daily positivity rate currently stands at 10.64%, as the country is witnessing a sudden surge in COVID-19 cases.

India has inoculated 92,07,700 COVID-19 vaccination doses in the last 24 hours, taking the tally to more than 152 crore COVID-19 doses so far.

More than 17.11 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 Tuesday morning.

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