NEW DELHI- India has adequate stocks of vaccines across states, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, as a surge in new COVID-19 infections led by the Omicron variant intensified across the country.

India reported 247,417 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the most since late May, according to data from the health ministry. 

(Reporting by Neha Arora, Shilpa Jamkhandikar and Chris Thomas Editing by Peter Graff) ((neha.dasgupta@tr.com; +91 11 49548001;))