Coronavirus Omicron India Highlights: India reported 3,33,533 cases today, slightly lower than the 3.37 lakh daily cases recorded on January 22. The fresh cases have taken the total caseload in the country to 3,92,37,264. The country also recorded 525 fresh fatalities in the last 24 hours, taking the total death count in the country, as a result of COVID-19 cases, to 4,89,409. The daily positivity rate marginally rose from 17.22 percent to 17.78 percent while the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 16.87 percent.
India’s cumulative COVID-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 161.92 crore, with more than 71 lakh doses administered in the last 24 hours. India has administered more than 80 lakh booster doses so far.
Amid a steep rise in COVID-19 cases, Kerala continues to introduce new measures to control the spread. The health department on January 22 instructed private hospitals in the state to set aside 50 percent of beds for COVID-19 patients.
Meanwhile, the national capital Delhi on January 22 reported 11,468 COVID-19 fresh cases while the positivity rate dropped marginally to 16.36 percent from 18.04 percent as recorded on the previous day.
After seeing a dip, Delhi government had proposed to lift the weekend curfew, revoke the odd-even system for opening of shops, and allow private offices to run with 50 percent staff in the city. However, Delhi L-G Anil Baijal on January 21 rejected the proposal sent by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and suggested that status quo be maintained with regards to the weekend curfew and opening of markets in the national capital. However, he agreed on private offices to work with 50 percent attendance.
Maharashtra saw 46,393 new cases in a day. The state's active cases currently stand at 2,79,930. Till date, a total of 2759 patients infected with Omicron Variant have been reported in the state; out of these 416 cases were reported on January 22.
Coronavirus Omicron India Live Updates |Kerala reports 45,449 new COVID19 cases, 27,961 recoveries & 38 deaths
Kerala reports 45,449 new COVID19 cases, 27,961 recoveries & 38 deaths in the last 24 hrs.39 deaths were added to the COVID death list as per the new guidelines of central government. Active cases stand at 2,64,638: State Govt
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Punjab reports 5,664 new cases and 30 deaths today; Active cases in the state stand at 46,472
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Haryana reports 7,516 new cases including 63 Omicron infections today; Active cases in the State are 57,753. Test positivity rate in the state is at 20.45%, today.
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West Bengal records 6,980 new COVID19 cases & 36 deaths today; Active cases stand at 1,10,183. Today’s positivity rate stands at 9.53
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Coronavirus Omicron India Live Updates | Gujarat reported 16,617 new cases and 19 deaths in the last 24 hours; Active cases over 1,34,000
Total cases: 10,62,555
Total discharged: 9,17,469
Active cases: 1,34,837
Death toll: 10,249
Coronavirus Omicron India Live Updates | Nagaland reports 107 fresh COVID-19 cases, tally at 33,585
Nagaland on Sunday reported 107 new COVID-19 cases, 14 less than the previous day, pushing the tally to 33,585 , a health official said. The death toll remained unchanged at 705 for the second consecutive day, he said. Nagaland now has 685 active COVID-19 cases, while 30,862 people have recuperated from the disease, including 54 in the last 24 hours. The COVID-19 recovery rate came down to 91.89 per cent from Saturday's 92.02 per cent.
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Jammu and Kashmir reports 6,253 new cases - 1,754 in Jammu and 4,499 in Kashmir and 7 deaths today. The total number of active cases in the UT is 42,866
Coronavirus Omicron India Live Updates | Jitendra Singh reviews COVID-19 situation in his Lok Sabha constituency in Jammu and Kashmir
Union Minister of State Jitendra Singh on Sunday virtually reviewed the COVID-19 pandemic situation and other related issues in his Lok Sabha constituency in the wake of the third wave of coronavirus. He held the meeting with deputy commissioners, DDC Chairpersons and SSPs of the Udhampur-Kathua-Doda Lok Sabha constituency, the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions said in a statement.Singh -- Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science and Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space -- enquired about the availability and functioning of dashboard in districts for real time updates and also issued fresh instructions to deal with the surge in cases. District Collectors, SSPs, DDC Chairman of Kathua, Udhampur, Doda, Reasi, Kishtwar, and Ramban joined the review meeting along with other district officials.The minister was informed that most of the cases in the third wave have remained asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic with flu-like symptoms which lasts for four to five days and then dissipates. Singh underlined that there is no room for complacency and all COVID-19 related norms and protocols must be followed in the strictest possible manner.
Coronavirus Omicron India Live Updates |Severity of COVID-19 during third wave is low: Tamil Nadu govt official
The severity of the COVID-19 outbreak during the third wave is low as compared to the second wave and the death rate has remained at an average of one individual succumbing to 1,000 cases, a senior Tamil Nadu government official said on Sunday. Unvaccinated individuals and those eligible to receive the 'precautionary booster dose' also pose a risk to contracting the contagion and this has emerged as a larger point of view of the medical experts who met here, Health Department Principal Secretary J Radhakrishnan said here.
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Andhra Pradesh reports 14,440 new COVID19 cases, 3,969 recoveries and 4 deaths in the last 24 hours. Active cases at83,610.
Coronavirus Omicron India Live Updates | Delhi reports 9,197 new COVID19 cases, 13,510 recoveries and 34 deaths in the last 24 hours
Active cases : 54,246
Positivity rate : 13.32%
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A total of 875 people tested positive for the virus in the Parliament House complex so far. 271 people in the Rajya Sabha Secretariat tested positive for the virus so far.
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Omicron has gone into a stage where it's more into community spread than only by travelers from abroad, given the rise in COVID cases...but it's unlike Delta. People recover early in case of Omicron: Dr Rajeev Jayadevan, who is advising Covid task force at IMA Kochi, Kerala
Coronavirus Omicron India Live Updates | Doctors, nurses among 50 personnel of Rajkot civil hospital who test COVID-19 positive
Around 50 staffers of the civil hospital in Gujarat's Rajkot city, including doctors and nurses, have tested coronavirus positive, an official has said. Since none of them are in a serious condition, they are undergoing treatment in home isolation, Superintendent of Civil Hospital RS Trivedi has said. "Healthcare staff members of the hospital, who come in direct contact with the patients, were tested for COVID-19. Almost 50 of them, including paramedical staff, nurses and doctors, were found infected. But the good thing is that nobody is in a serious condition, and most of them are in home isolation," he has told reporters. (PTI)
Coronavirus Omicron India Live Updates | Puducherry adds 1,897 fresh COVID-19 cases, five deaths
The union territory of Puducherry has logged 1,897 new COVID-19 cases during the last 24 hours pushing the overall tally to 1,52,213, according to a senior Health department official. Five more people have succumbed to the virus in the last 24 hours as the death toll rose to 1,906, Director of Health and Family Welfare Services G Sriramulu has said in a release. The Puducherry region has alone registered 1,395 out of the 1,897 new cases in the last 24 hours as of 10 am today while Karaikal reported 342 cases, followed by Yanam (116) and Mahe (44). The number of active cases stand at 15,696 with 174 undergoing treatment in hospitals and the remaining 15,522 in home isolation. (PTI)
Coronavirus Omicron India Live Updates | India's R-value further reduces, COVID-19 peak likely in next 14 days: IIT analysis
India's R-value which indicates the rate of spread of coronavirus has further reduced to 1.57 in the week from January 14-21 and the national peak of the third wave of the infection is expected to come in the next fortnight, according to a preliminary analysis by IIT Madras.
R-value indicates the number of people an infected person can spread the disease to. A pandemic is considered to end if this value goes below 1.
According to the analysis shared by IIT Madras with PTI, the R-value was recorded at 1.57 between January 14 and January 21. The number was recorded at 2.2 in the week of January 7-13 while it was 4 from January 1-6 and 2.9 from December 25- 31. (PTI)
Coronavirus Omicron India Live Updates | 32-bed COVID-19 isolation facility set up in JNU campus
A 32-bed COVID-19 isolation centre for students and campus residents has been set up inside Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in the national capital, following the Delhi government’s health department order on January 21, reported The Indian Express.
Coronavirus Omicron India Live Updates | Country's cumulative vaccination crosses 161.92 crores
India’s Cumulative COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage has exceeded 161.92 crore with more than 71 Lakh doses administered in the last 24 hours. India has administered more than 80 lakh booster doses so far.
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Australia approves two new medicines in the fight against COVID
On Thursday, health minister Greg Hunt announced Australia’s drug regulator had provisionally approved two new medicines for the treatment of COVID.
These are Lagevrio, made by American pharmaceutical company Merck Sharpe & Dohme, and Paxlovid, by Pfizer.
With the number of hospitalisations and deaths due to the virus continuing to rise, the approval of these drugs comes at a good time.
The federal government has purchased a combined 800,000 courses of the pills, and said the drugs will initially be prioritised for the elderly and other high risk groups. (PTI)
Coronavirus Omicron India Live Updates | New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern cancels her wedding amid new Omicron restrictions
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden has cancelled her wedding as the nation imposes new restrictions to slow the community spread of the COVID-19 Omicron variant, she told reporters on Sunday.New Zealand will impose mask rules and limit gathering from midnight on Sunday after a cluster of nine cases of the COVID-19 Omicron variant showed community transmission from the North to South islands after a wedding.
Coronavirus Omicron India Live Updates |Over 2 lakh people have got third dose of COVID-19 vaccine: Delhi govt
Over two lakh people have been administered the precautionary dose of COVID-19 vaccine in Delhi since the exercise commenced on January 10, according to official data.
The third or the precautionary dose is being administered to people aged 60 or more, healthcare workers and frontline workers who took their second dose of the vaccine nine months ago. They are being given the same vaccine they received earlier. (PTI)
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Rate of administering booster doses slow down in Maharashtra
Administering of booster dose started on January 10 in the state. Of the more than fourlakh qualified health workers only 43% have taken the booster dose. The numberis marginally better for the frontline workers where 48% of the three lakh qualified workers have taken the dose. The rate of administering the precautionary doses is slowing down in the state because those who were infected in the second wave cannot take the booster dose, reports NDTV.
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Maharashtra records 46,393 COVID-19 cases, 48 deaths
Maharashtra saw 46,393 new cases in a day. The state's active cases currently stands at 2,79,930. Till date, a total of 2759 patients infected with Omicron Variant have been reported in the state; out of these 416 cases were reported on January 22.
