Omicron Variant Cases and Deaths in India Live, Covid-19 Booster Vaccine Registration Update: India saw a single-day rise of 1,79,723 coronavirus infections taking the total tally to 3,57,07,727, according to data updated by the Union Health Ministry on Monday.
The number of active cases has increased to 7,23,619, the highest in around 204 days, while the death toll has climbed to 4,83,936 with 146 fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.
India has begun administering the precaution dose of Covid vaccine to healthcare and frontline workers and comorbid people aged 60 and above from today.
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India Omicron Cases
India has logged 4,033 cases of Omicron so far. Of the total 4,033 cases of Omicron variant, 1,552 have recovered or migrated.
Maharashtra recorded the maximum number of 1,216 Omicron cases, followed by Rajasthan 529, Delhi 513, Karnataka 441, Kerala 333 and Gujarat 236.
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Sweden will introduce more measures to stem the rising number of COVID cases and an increased pressure on the healthcare system, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said on Monday. “The situation has deteriorated, without doubt. The level of infections in Sweden is at a historically high level,” Andersson told a news conference. The new measures include a work from home mandate where possible and a cap on the number of people allowed at public events. Restaurants will have to close at 2300 and guests will have to be seated and in groups no bigger than eight people. Adults are also being asked to limit social contacts indoors. The measures will be evaluated after two weeks, but are expected to be in place for at least four weeks. While COVID infections have soared, hitting a new record last week, the number of people hospitalized as a result remains well below the peaks encountered in previous waves. The number of new deaths has also been comparatively low. More than 1,000 patients are being treated in hospital for COVID and roughly 100 of them are in intensive care units. The strain on healthcare is being exacerbated by spread by other respiratory viruses and staff shortages, the National Board of Health and Welfare said. (Reuters)
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh tests positive for COVID-19.
Jammu & Kashmir | Booster doses of COVID19 vaccine for frontline workers, healthcare workers and senior citizens over 60 with underlying conditions, at PHC Jawahar Nagar in Srinagar (ANI)
Adult beneficiaries under Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation have got a final reminder to get themselves vaccinated within 10 days. The PCMC has set the deadlines the third wave sets in and after making repeated appeals to the people to get their first and second doses of Covid-19 vaccine. | Read More
No time limit set on the operationalisation of Covid Vaccination Centres. The session timings subject to demand & requirement at a particular CVC. Timings of CVCs is flexible and can be up to 10pm in the night: Dr Manohar Agnani, Additional Secy, Ministry of Health to States/UTs (ANI)
Healthcare workers administered 'precaution dose' of COVID19 vaccine amid a surge in cases, at Delhi's LNJP Hospital (ANI)
Kerala | CM Pinarayi Vijayan following a COVID19 review meeting has decided to limit the no. of people who can attend weddings and funerals to a maximum of 50.
Dept of Health & Education must ensure that vaccination of those in 15-18 age group is completed this week, he added. (ANI)
Around 1000 Delhi Police personnel, including Public Relations Officer and Additional Commissioner Chinmoy Biswal have tested positive for COVID19. All infected personnel are under quarantine: Delhi Police (ANI)
Delhi | COVID cases rising for last 8-9 days (nationally); cases in Delhi, Mumbai almost 4-5 times more. Hopefully, a sharp decline will be there in peak as we saw in South Africa when cases soared suddenly & then declined: Dr Sandeep Nayar, HOD, Respiratory diseases BLK Hospital (ANI)
COVID-19 Omicron variant: Just when global vaccination drives had begun giving people an edge over the deadly coronavirus pandemic, the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 has led to another global surge in COVID-19 cases. New waves of the pandemic have started to impact countries across the world, including the US, Australia, and many European countries, and India is no exception to this. In fact, experts have stated that the rise in the number of coronavirus cases is already pointing at the beginning of a third wave in the country, which is worrisome especially due to the situation India witnessed in 2021 during the Delta wave. What adds more to the worry is the fact that not much is known about the variant, even as early studies point towards it being much milder than its predecessor Delta. | Read More
COVID-19 vaccine precautionary dose being administered to frontline workers, senior citizens over 60 with underlying conditions, at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi. (ANI)
Administration of 'Precaution dose' of COVID19 vaccine to healthcare workers, frontline workers and 60+ with co-morbidities begins in Kerala today
Visuals from Govt General Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram (ANI)
99% eligible population has received the first dose of vaccine and 82% has received the second dose in the State. We are prepared with hospital & ICU beds to fight the pandemic: Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai (ANI)
FIR has been registered against 30 people for violating Covid19 protocols. Ramanagara district administration has taken action as per the law. We will not spare anybody who violates the law: Karnataka Home minister Araga Jnanendra on Congress' Mekedatu padayatra (ANI)
Drive-thru COVID precautionary dose vaccination underway at Moolchand Hospital, Delhi
“Healthcare workers, people aged 60 & above comorbidities are being vaccinated. Both registered and unregistered beneficiaries being given the doses,” says Duggu Talwar, hospital trustee (ANI)
Sports Authority of India decides to close 67 training centres across country in view of rising COVID-19 cases (PTI)
Arunachal Pradesh's COVID-19 tally rose to 55,558 on Monday as 37 more people tested positive for the infection, 22 less than the previous day, a senior health official said.
The death toll remained unchanged at 282 as no fresh fatality was registered in the last 24 hours, he said.
The northeastern state is witnessing a spurt in COVID-19 cases since January 4, with 206 infections detected since then.
Arunachal Pradesh now has 222 active cases while, 55,054 people have recuperated from the disease so far, including one on Sunday, State Surveillance Officer (SSO) Dr Lobsang Jampa said.
Three NDRF personnel are among the new patients, the official said.
The Capital Complex region recorded the highest number of 18 fresh cases, followed by 13 in West Kameng district and three in Namsai.
The recovery rate among the coronavirus patients in the state stood at 99.09 per cent, the SSO said.
The state has tested over 12.08 lakh samples for COVID-19 so far, including 376 on Sunday, he said, adding that the positivity ratio has shot up to 9.84 per cent.
State Immunisation Officer Dr Dimong Padung said that 14,89,389 people have been inoculated so far.
At least 18,941 beneficiaries in the age group of 15-18 years have been administered the first dose, the official added.
Meanwhile, the state government, in view of the sudden surge in COVID-19 cases, has directed all the deputy commissioners to re-establish the district COVID control rooms and reactivate the rapid response teams.
Health Secretary P Parthiban, in an order on Sunday, urged the districts to ensure seamless administrative management of the COVID-19 situation in the state.
He urged the district COVID control rooms and rapid response teams to ensure public ease of access to services like ambulance transportation, guiding of callers to their nearest testing centres, booking of hospital beds in health facilities and monitoring and following-up of home isolation cases.
Parthiban, in the order, said that the district control rooms should be adequately staffed with doctors, counsellors and volunteers and equipped with dedicated phone lines and IT equipment to cater to the assigned population. (PTI)
Odisha on Monday registered 4,829 new COVID-19 cases, marginally higher than the previous day, while no fatality was recorded for the third consecutive day, a health bulletin said.
As many as 448 children are among the new patients. The daily positivity rate declined to 6.5 per cent from 6.72 per cent on the previous day, it said.
The new cases jumped more than 11-fold from 424 infections a week ago. The state had logged 4,714 cases on Sunday, while 4,852 infections were registered on June 12 last year.
Khurda district, where Bhubaneswar is located, reported 993 cases, followed by 869 in Sundargarh, 644 in Sambalpur, 401 in Cuttack and 210 in Balasore, it said.
The active cases mounted to 20,560 — including 6,496 in Khurda and 3,060 in Sundargarh, which are in the red zone. Sambalpur and Cuttack are in the yellow zone, the bulletin said.
The toll stood at 8,468 and these are confirmed as deaths due to COVID-19 after an audit. Fifty-three other coronavirus patients have died due to comorbidities so far, the department said.
The caseload rose to 10.76 lakh, including 10.47 lakh recoveries as 386 more patients recuperated in the last 24 hours. The state tested 74,304 samples during the period, it added. (PTI)
Rajasthan | Senior citizens, frontline workers queue up outside a vaccination center in Jaipur as the nationwide drive for COVID-19 'precautionary dose' kickstarts today. (ANI)
The numbers are small, but the major port of Tianjin may be facing China's first local outbreak of omicron of any size, less than a month before the Winter Olympics open in nearby Beijing.
State broadcaster CCTV said the government has divided Tianjin and its 14 million residents into three levels of restrictions, starting with lockdown areas where people are not allowed to leave their homes at all. In control areas, each household is allowed to have one family member leave to buy groceries every other day, while in prevention areas, people must remain inside their immediate neighborhoods.
Buses and trains from Tianjin to Beijing have been suspended and people are being told not to leave the city unless they have pressing business.
The city began mass testing of all its residents on Sunday after a cluster of 20 children and adults tested positive for COVID-19, including at least two with the omicron variant. Another 20 people tested positive on Sunday, bringing the total to 40. Officials said earlier that the virus has been circulating so the number of cases could rise.
China has stepped up its strict zero tolerance strategy in the runup to the Olympics, which open Feb. 4. The Chinese capital is 115 kilometers (70 miles) northwest of Tianjin and many people regularly travel back and forth by car or on a high-speed rail link that takes less than one hour. | Read More
Jammu & Kashmir LG Manoj Sinha takes COVID vaccine 'precautionary dose' as part of the nationwide drive for frontline workers and senior citizens above 60 years of age with co-morbidities, that kickstarted today. (ANI)
Mizoram's COVID-19 tally soared to 1,46,045 on Monday as 518 more people tested positive for the infection, 385 less than the previous day, a health bulletin said.
The northeastern state's coronavirus death toll rose to 561 as three more patients, including a Myanmarese, succumbed to the infection, it said.
The single-day positivity rate stood at 19.23 per cent as the new cases were detected from 2,694 samples.
Champhai district reported the highest number of new cases at 216, followed by Aizawl (110) and Mamit (108), it said.
The state now has 4,612 active cases, while 1,40,872 people have recovered from the disease so far, including 270 in the last 24 hours.
The recovery rate among the COVID-19 patients stood at 96.45 per cent, while the mortality rate was at 0.38 per cent. The state has thus far tested over 15.40 lakh samples for COVID-19.
State Immunisation Officer Dr Lalzawmi said that more than 7.46 lakh people including 13,775 teenagers have been vaccinated till Saturday.
Of the 7.46 lakh people, 5.94 lakh have been fully vaccinated, she added. (PTI)
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya to meet health ministers, officials from Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Goa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, and Maharashtra at 3:30 pm today to discuss COVID-situation in these states. (ANI)
Amid a surge in coronavirus infections in the national capital, more than 300 Delhi Police personnel, including the Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch), have tested positive for COVID-19, officials said on Monday.
“More than 300 police personnel have been infected. They belong to different units of the force and are under quarantine,” said a senior police officer.
The overall strength of the Delhi Police is over 80,000.
Recently, Delhi Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana had issued a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for preventing the spread of the coronavirus among police personnel.
Since police personnel are frontline workers performing their duties amidst the public, it is imperative they take adequate precautions to protect themselves from exposure to Covid, it said.
According to the SOP, all police personnel should wear face-masks, maintain social distancing and practise proper hand hygiene while performing their duties.
All police personnel and eligible family members who have not been vaccinated may be motivated to complete the vaccination process.
“Those who have not been vaccinated due to medical reasons may be encouraged to seek medical opinion again for vaccination,” it said. (PTI)
Cases in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata are likely to peak around the middle of this month, in the next few days in fact…But this wave will be almost over by the end of this month in these cities: Manindra Agrawal, IIT Kanpur professor on third wave | Read More
Kanpur, UP | As per preliminary data, cases (nationally) will peak by the end of this month & are likely to to cross second wave numbers. But the decline of cases will be equally sharp. By March, it (peak) will be almost over: Manindra Agrawal, IIT Kanpur professor on third wave | Read More
COVID19 vaccine 'Precaution dose' being administered to senior citizens above 60 years of age with co-morbidities at Govt Unani Hospital in Hyderabad (ANI)
Currently, there are 33,900 active cases in the state. 90% of these patients are asymptomatic, under home isolation. Integrated Covid Control Centre in every District keeps in touch with COVID19 patients and provides them with medical kits: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath (ANI)
Delhi begins administering COVID-19 vaccine 'precautionary dose' to frontline workers and senior citizens above 60 years of age with co-morbidities. “We feel fine. There are no side-effects, everyone should take the jab,” people said (ANI)
The COVID-19 tally of Andaman and Nicobar Islands rose to 8,150 on Monday as 175 more people tested positive for the infection, 89 more than the previous day, a health bulletin said.
A total of 129 new patients have travel history, while 46 infections were detected during contact tracing, it said.
The Union territory's coronavirus death toll remained unchanged at 129 as no fresh fatality was registered.
The archipelago now has 322 active cases, while 7,699 more people have been cured of the disease thus far, including 40 in the last 24 hours, the bulletin said.
The administration has to date tested over 6.74 lakh samples for COVID-19, and inoculated more than 3.10 lakh people. (PTI)
COVID vaccine 'precautionary dose' being administered to senior citizens above 60 years of age with co-morbidities at a vaccination center in Patna, Bihar (ANI)
Active COVID-19 cases in India increase to 7,23,619: Union Health Ministry. (PTI)
Single day rise of 1,79,723 new infections, 146 fatalities push India's COVID-19 case tally to 3,57,07,727, death toll to 4,83,936: Govt (PTI)
4,033 cases of Omicron variant of coronavirus have been detected across 27 states and union territories so far: Union Health Ministry. (PTI)
Forty-six inmates and 43 staffers of three jails in Delhi have tested positive for COVID-19, officials said on Monday.
“All the infected inmates as well as staffers have been under isolation and are recovering,” said a senior jail official.
According to data shared by the jail authorities, 46 inmates tested positive till Sunday — 29 inmates in Tihar and the remaining 17 in Mandoli jail.
Among the 43 infected staffers, 25 are from Tihar, 12 from Rohini jail and six from Mandoli jail.
As part of the steps taken to contain the spread of the viral disease in Tihar, Mandoli and Rohini jail complexes, prison dispensaries have been turned into Covid care centres. An oxygen plant in Tihar will be functional soon, officials said.
Many medical isolation cells have been set up for inmates showing slight symptoms of COVID-19, they said.
Those who test positive but are asymptomatic will be kept in separate isolation cells within the same jail.
The 120-bed hospital in Tihar and the 48-bed facility in Mandoli have been converted into Covid Health Centres.
The jail administration said they have formed four committees to look after the infected inmates and staffers.
Social distancing among staff members and inmates is followed to the extent possible. Inmates are mostly restricted to their wards and awareness programmes about following Covid norms are carried out regularly, officials said.
The total number of prisoners in all the three jails of Delhi Prisons as of January 7 was 18,528. Tihar has a maximum of 12,669 inmates, Mandoli 4,018 and Rohini 1,841. (PTI)
Chennai | Tamil Nadu begins administering COVID-19 vaccine 'Precaution dose' to frontline workers and senior citizens above 60 years of age with co-morbidities (ANI)
COVID19 | India reports 1,79,723 fresh cases & 146 deaths in the last 24 hours
Active case tally reaches 7,23,619. Daily Positivity rate at 13.29%
Omicron case tally at 4,033 (ANI)
India will start administering the precaution dose of Covid vaccine to healthcare and frontline workers and comorbid people aged 60 and above from today (ANI)
Amid an uptick in coronavirus cases, the Delhi government has taken action against 5,073 people for not wearing masks in public or work places. to p Covid-appropriate behaviour. According to official data, 61 FIRs were registered on Saturday against those not following Covid-appropriate behaviour and a fine of Rs.1.25 crores was collected from the violators. The data stated that 5,073 people were challaned for violation of masks, 74 for not maintaining social distancing and 51 people were fined for spitting in public places in its 11 districts. Enforcement teams of Revenue Department have formed flying squads to take action against big gatherings, and violations of social-distancing norms at restaurants, hotels, markets and other such places. Lt Governor Anil Baijal directed the police commissioner and divisional commissioner (revenue) to strictly ensure compliance with Covid-appropriate behaviour in line with the latest guidelines of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), officials had said. The intervention came in the wake of reports on overcrowding at the city's marketplaces. Police officers and field functionaries have been directed to immediately ensure strict enforcement of the DDMA order, they had said. (PTI)
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The Delhi health department has directed all private hospitals and nursing homes to ensure that their health care staff treating non-Covid patients maintain coronavirus appropriate behaviour and are routinely checked for the infection. The health care workers showing symptoms of COVID-19 should not be allowed to work till their RTPCR report is negative, it said. The directions come in view of a surge in Covid cases in ICUs, dialysis units and wards of hospitals. The department said infected health care workers and undiagnosed infected patients are likely the reason behind the spread of the infection in these areas. “Therefore, the authorities of all private hospitals and nursing homes are to ensure that the health care workers treating non-Covid patients, especially in ICUs, maintain COVID-19 appropriate behaviour and are routinely checked for SARS-CoV-2,” read an advisory issued by the health department. It may also be ensured that health care workers have received COVID-19 vaccination as per the guidelines issued by the Union health ministry, the department said. It has also asked the private hospitals and nursing homes to create an isolation area within intensive care units (ICUs) and wards to manage new patients till their RTPCR report is available. (PTI)
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No Omicron case was reported in Gujarat on Sunday, keeping the tally of those infected with the new coronavirus variant unchanged at 236, while the day also saw 19 recoveries from it, an official said. The number of people who have recovered from the infection caused by the Omicron variant rose to 186, with the people discharged during the day comprising nine from Vadodara, six from Rajkot, three from Anand and one from Ahmedabad, he pointed out. Ahmedabad city leads with 105 Omicron cases and 75 recoveries, followed by 35 cases and 32 recoveries in Vadodara, 23 cases and 21 recoveries in Anand, among other districts, he said. So far, 15 out of the state's 33 districts have reported Omicron cases, the official added. (PTI)
Active cases: 2,02,259
Death toll: 1,41,639
Omicron cases in the state: 1216 pic.twitter.com/63KDaWGVIF
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