Coronavirus Vaccine Registration, Coronavirus Omicron Variant Cases in India January 11 Live Updates: As the highly contagious Omicron variant of Coronavirus continues its rapid spread across the globe, including in India, the Union Health Ministry started providing ‘precaution doses’ of Covid vaccine. According to Union Health Ministry data, over 11 lakh health care and frontline workers, and 60-plus citizens with co-morbidities received their third Covid dose on Monday as India began administering a “precautionary” dose against Coronavirus.
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India witnessed 1,79,723 fresh Coronavirus infections on Monday. The number of active cases increased to 7,23,619, the highest in around 204 days.
Meanwhile, several states/UT governments have already imposed several restrictions, including night curfew and weekend lockdown in order to check the surge of Covid-19.
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will address a press conference on COVID at 12 noon today. (ANI)
As many as 25 widows from the 'Mahila Ashray Sadan' in Vrindavan tested positive for coronavirus on Monday, officials said. Overall, the district reported 240 new infections, most of them detected in random testing, according to Dr Bhudeo Singh, in-charge of the Rapid Response Team here. He said 25 widows from the 'Mahila Ashray Sadan' Vrindavan were also found infected, taking to 58 the tally of cases in the Ashram. (PTI)
Hospitals around the US are increasingly taking the extraordinary step of allowing nurses and other workers infected with the coronavirus to stay on the job if they have mild symptoms or none at all. The move is a reaction to the severe hospital staffing shortages and crushing caseloads that the omicron variant is causing. California health authorities announced over the weekend that hospital staff members who test positive but are symptom-free can continue working. Some hospitals in Rhode Island and Arizona have likewise told employees they can stay on the job if they have no symptoms or just mild ones. The highly contagious omicron variant has sent new cases of COVID-19 exploding to over 7,00,000 a day in the US on average, obliterating the record set a year ago. (AP)
The European Union ended travel restrictions on flights from southern Africa on Monday well over a month after imposing them to in hopes of containing the spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus. The highly contagious variant was first discovered in southern Africa in late November and the 27-nation bloc restricted travel for visitors from that region, where the variant brought on a sudden surge of infections. Omicron has since become the dominant variant and is responsible in the EU and many other nations for a unprecedent increase in infections. That made the travel ban from southern Africa a moot point. (AP)
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