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Live news: India logs 247,417 new Covid cases, Omicron count at 5,488

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Patients rest at a health centre set up in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, to care for Covid-19 patients on January 11, 2022. (PTI Photo/Kunal Patil)
Live news updates: India reported 247,417 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, the most since late May, according to data from the health ministry. The country has 5,488 cases of the fast-spreading Omicron coronavirus variant.

New daily infections increased by 27 per cent since Wednesday and the positivity rate—the percentage of Covid-19 tests that result in positive cases—has increased from 11.5 per cent to 13 per cent.

Uttar Pradesh environment minister Dara Singh Chauhan quit the state cabinet on Wednesday, becoming the second prominent other backward classes (OBC) leader to resign in 24 hours after labour minister Swami Prasad Maurya and dealing a blow to the ruling BJP.

India’s retail inflation rate shot up to a five-month high in December and industrial output growth decelerated to a nine-month low in November, signalling that economic recovery remains fragile.

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