Coronavirus Omicron Highlights: Seven-hour relaxation in 64-hr weekend lockdown announced in Jammu & Kashmir

Mumbai on Sunday reported 1,160 new coronavirus positive cases, taking its overall tally to 10,45,630, while the death of 10 such patients increased the toll to 16,612, the civic body said. A total of 2,530 patients were discharged during the day post-recovery. So far, 10,15,451 patients have recuperated from the infection in the city, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's health department said in a statement.There are 10,797 active COVID-19 cases in the city. With 46,307 tests carried out on Sunday, the overall test count reached 1,52,43,823.Of the 1,160 new cases, 1,009 patients are asymptomatic, while 160 are hospitalised. Of them, 29 are on oxygen support. Out of the 37,573 beds, 2,268 are occupied. Mumbai's recovery rate is 97 per cent and the case doubling rate is 375 days. Mumbai civic commissioner I S Chahal said the city's positivity rate has come down to 2.5 per cent.

Coronavirus Omicron LIVE Updates |Kerala records 51,570 new COVID-19 cases

COVID-19 cases in Kerala continued to rise with the southern state reporting 51,570 new infections on Sunday taking the total number of affected people to 59,83,515. The state has reported 14 coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours taking the death toll to 53,666, the state health department said. The state has tested 1,03,366 samples in the last 24 hours, a release issued by the health department said. On Saturday, Kerala had reported 50,812 cases. On January 25, Kerala had registered 55,475 cases, the highest ever single-day spike in the infection count since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020.

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Coronavirus Omicron LIVE Updates |Andhra Pradesh adds over 10,000 new Covid-19 cases and 12 deaths

Andhra Pradesh registered 10,310 fresh cases of Covid-19 on Sunday. In 24 hours ending 9 AM on Sunday, 9,692 infected people had recovered while 12 more succumbed in the state, according to the latest bulletin. The state Covid-19 chart now showed a total of 22,70,491 positives, 21,39,854 recoveries and 14,606 deaths till date.The active caseload is now 1,16,031, the bulletin said. Only four districts reported new coronavirus cases in excess of 1,000 each, with the highest being 1,697 in Kadapa. Eight districts registered fresh cases in three digits each while the remaining one added 99, the lowest in the state.

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Coronavirus Omicron LIVE Updates |No major impact of fresh COVID-19 wave on housing sales, say property consultants

Housing sales are expected to remain strong during this current quarter and there will not be any major impact on demand from the fresh wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to industry experts. Many states imposed restrictions like weekend curfew to curb the spread of the Omicron variant of coronavirus, affecting visits of prospecting customers to project sites.However, real estate developers and consultants said there was a minor impact in the first two weeks and sales enquiries are strong. "The impact of Omicron on housing sales is not expected to be significant as compared to the last two waves," Anarock Chairman Anuj Puri told PTI.Anarock is one of the leading housing brokerage firms in the country. "Unlike the last two waves, we have not had a complete lockdown and mobility has not been severely impacted. The sentiments have remained broadly positive as the fatality rate has been very low and so has the hospitalisation rate," he observed. "Unlike the last two waves, we have not had a complete lockdown and mobility has not been severely impacted.

Tamil Nadu Housing and Urban Development Minister S Muthusamy on Sunday tested positive for COVID-19 and has gone into quarantine at his camp office in Periyar Nagar here. Muthusamy, the DMK MLA representing Erode West assembly constituency, regularly took part in all programmes conducted by the government apart from collecting grievance petitions to send to the district collector.On Sunday, he developed slight fever and underwent a test. Doctors declared that he tested COVID-19 positive and advised him to isolate at his residence.

Coronavirus Omicron LIVE Updates |2 yrs on, vaccines, following protocols remain most effective weapons against COVID-19

As India completed two years since the outbreak of COVID-19, vaccines and following COVID Appropriate Behaviour remain the most effective weapons against the deadly virus. Though a number of drugs and other methods have been tried, no definitive treatment has emerged as yet. The country saw its first case of COVID-19 on January 30, 2020, when a third-year medical student from Wuhan University tested positive. She had returned home following semester holidays. Since then, India has witnessed three waves of COVID-19, though the line of treatment has remained the same throughout.Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Saturday said irrespective of the COVID-19 variants, 'Test-Track-Treat-Vaccinate and Adherence to COVID Appropriate Behaviour' continue to remain the tested strategy for COVID-19 management. Several medical treatments were also tried to tackle COVID-19 but no widely accepted treatment has been seen till now. Recently, at a press briefing, NITI Aayog Member (Health) Dr V K Paul expressed concern over the "overuse and misuse" of drugs. "The use of steroids can increase the chances of Mucormycosis (black fungus). Steroids are very potent life-saving drugs but they also have side effects and they disturb the immunological protection. They disturb many biochemical pathways. So, it was a very big lesson...we were learning at that time but now we know it," he had said."For fever, paracetamol is given, and for cough, AYUSH syrup can be used. This is what we have prescribed in the home care module too. If the cough continues for more than three days, there is an inhaler called Budesonide. These are the only three things that need to be done. Other than that, gargle and take rest. Do not overdo, it has a cost," he had warned. The country tried treatments such as plasma therapy, Remdesivir, DRDO's anti-Covid drug 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) and most recently Molnupiravir, but there has been no definitive medicine to cure COVID-19 patients.

Lockdown-like restrictions have been in place in Kerala today (Sunday, January 30) to curb the spread of COVID-19 as the state logged in over 50,000 new infections and eight COVID-related deaths on Saturday. Kerala logged 50,812 new infections and eight COVID-19-related deaths yesterday, taking the infection count to 59,31,945 and the death toll to 53,191. (PTI)

Another Ukrainian biathlon coach, Igor Yashchenko, has tested positive for COVID-19 after arriving in Beijing for the Winter Olympics, the Ukrainian biathlon federation has said late. On anuary 28, the chief men's biathlon coach, Yuraj Sanitra, went into self-isolation after a positive coronavirus test. The Ukrainian Olympic team, including 45 athletes, travelled to Beijing on January 23. (Reuters)