Masha Midhath   23 January 2022 - 07:48 PM
Health workers collect swab samples during a rapid antigen testing campaign for Covid-19, at a railway station in Mumbai .
Health workers collect swab samples during a rapid antigen testing campaign for Covid-19, at a railway station in Mumbai .
India reported over 300,000 new Covid-19 infections for the fourth straight day.

The country reported 333,533 new Covid-19 infections over the past 24 hours, slightly lower than the previous day, showed the Union health ministry data updated on Sunday morning. The death toll spiked to 4,89,409 with 525 new fatalities, according to the figures released by the government.

Notably, India is the world's second worst-hit country by the coronavirus pandemic after the United States.

Since the start of this year, different parts of the country are under varying degrees of restrictions to contain infections caused by highly transmissible Omicron variant.