Coronavirus Live Updates: India Records 1,41,986 New Cases

Coronavirus Live Updates: Omicron is causing record numbers of cases around the world, and though it causes less severe Covid-19, experts warn this wave still threatens to overwhelm health systems.

Coronavirus Live Updates: India Records 1,41,986 New Cases

Coronavirus Live Updates: Several Covid restrictions have been imposed due to rising cases. (File)

New Delhi:

India reported 1,41,986 fresh COVID-19 cases, over 21 per cent higher than the previous day's cases. The country's daily positivity rate stands at 9.28 per cent while the active cases are 4,72,169.

Delhi's daily Covid cases shot up by 15 per cent on Friday after 17,335 fresh cases were detected in 24 hours.

Several Covid restrictions have been imposed in the national capital as the surge continues. A weekend curfew from 10 pm Friday to 5 am Monday has also been put in place. Only essential services will be allowed during these hours.

Omicron is causing record numbers of cases around the world, and though it causes less severe Covid-19, experts warn this wave still threatens to overwhelm health systems. Six weeks after it was first sequenced in southern Africa Omicron cases are smashing infection records with average new daily cases at nearly two million this week, according to an AFP tally.

The World Health Organization has said that the spread of Omicron was down to a combination of factors including the make-up of the Covid-19 variant and increased social mixing.

Here are the LIVE Updates on coronavirus:

Jan 08, 2022 11:45 (IST)
Mexico Covid death count passes 300,000
Mexico's deaths from Covid-19 surpassed 300,000 on Friday, one of the world's highest count as the pandemic rebounds around the globe. Mexico is the fifth worst-hit country, with the United States the most affected with more than 836,000 fatalities, followed by Brazil (619,000), India (483,000) and Russia (314,000) 

The Central American nation recorded 28,023 new infections on Friday, the second highest since the start of the pandemic, for a total of more than four million cases. Mexico has officially recorded 300,101 deaths since March 2020, including 168 in the last 24 hours, the health ministry said.
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Covaxin-Maker Bharat Biotech On Unapproved Vaccines To 15-18: Received Several Reports Year Olds
Hyderabad-based vaccine manufacturer Bharat Biotech on Friday said that it has received reports of COVID-19 vaccines other than Covaxin are being administered in children of age group 15-18 years in the country.
Jan 08, 2022 10:56 (IST)
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Jan 08, 2022 10:08 (IST)
1,41,986 Covid Cases In India Today, 21% Up From Yesterday, Positivity 9%
India reported 1,41,986 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, a week after the country crossed the 10,000 mark, as the virus continued to spread at an unprecedented pace, largely driven by the Omicron variant now present in 27 states.
Jan 08, 2022 09:47 (IST)
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Jan 08, 2022 09:02 (IST)
Australia treasurer tests positive for COVID-19 as cases hit a record
Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said he had tested positive to COVID-19 and was isolating, joining other senior government officials to have contracted the disease amid a record number of cases in an outbreak of the highly contagious Omicron variant.

"Like thousands of Australians, I tested positive today to COVID-19," Frydenberg wrote in a short message which he posted to Twitter and Facebook late on Friday.

"I have the common symptoms and am isolating with my family," he added without elaborating or disclosing which variant he had.
Jan 08, 2022 08:42 (IST)
Hong Kong leader orders probe of 13 officials who went to COVID-hit party
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has ordered an inquiry into the behaviour of 13 senior government officials who attended the birthday bash of a delegate to China's legislature, where two of the 170 guests tested positive for the coronavirus.

The officials, along with 19 members of Hong Kong's new "patriots-only" legislative council - all of whom have so far tested negative - and the other guests were sent to a quarantine facility this week as authorities scramble to contain the emergence of a new wave of cases.

Lam said in a late Friday statement she ordered "detailed" investigations "as to whether the attendance of 13 officials at the banquet constitutes any breach of discipline."

Jan 08, 2022 08:33 (IST)
Over 50 Health Workers In Tamil Nadu's Chennai Test COVID-19 Positive
More than 50 doctors and health workers at three main government medical college Covid hospitals in Tamil Nadu's Chennai have tested positive for COVID-19.
Jan 08, 2022 08:32 (IST)
7-Day Mandatory Home Quarantine For All International Arrivals In India
People flying in from abroad will need to home quarantine for a week after landing in India and test on the eighth day, in new rules that take effect on Tuesday to tackle a huge Omicron-driven surge in Covid cases in the country. The number of "at-risk" countries has been increased to 19; nine more have been added since December.

All passengers have to go into home isolation for seven days and take an RT-PCR test after that. If they test positive, they will be sent to an isolation facility and their samples will be sent for genome testing.
Jan 08, 2022 08:32 (IST)
Delhi Records 17.73% Covid Positivity Rate
Delhi's daily Covid cases shot up by 15 per cent on Friday after 17,335 fresh cases were detected in 24 hours. Nine people have died in the national capital in the same period. On Wednesday, the city witnessed its biggest-ever single-day spike in nearly eight months as 10,665 cases were reported in 24 hours. Read more.
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