India has logged 636 new cases of COVID-19, while the number of active cases of the infection have increased to 4,394, the Health Ministry said on january 1.
Three new fatalities due to Covid - two from Kerala and one from Tamil Nadu - have been reported in a span of 24 hours, according to the Ministry's data updated at 8 a.m.
The number of daily cases had dropped to double-digits till December 5 last year, but cases have again gone up after emergence of a new variant and cold weather conditions.
