Omicron Variant Cases and Deaths in India Live, Covid-19 Booster Vaccine Registration Latest Update, Covid-19 Omicron Variant Feb 2 LIVE Updates: India saw a significant jump in the daily Covid death rate as 1,733 fatalities were registered on Tuesday alone.
The health ministry bulletin on Wednesday stated that India reported 1,61,386 new COVID-19 cases and 2,81,109 recoveries in the last 24 hours.
The country recorded 3,95,11,307 total recoveries in the same time frame. The active cases in the country stand at 16,21,603.
India Covid-19 Status in last 24 hours:
New COVID cases: 1,61,386;
Death recorded: 1,733;
Recoveries registered: 2,81,109;
Active cases: 16,21,603;
Daily positivity rate: 9.26%
Earlier, Covid-19 vaccine manufactures BioNtech and Pfizer sought Emergency Use Authorization of their Covid vaccine for use in children between the age of 6 months and four years of age, reports said.
Once approved by the US based Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the two-shot regimen of these anti-Coronavirus vaccines will be the first vaccines for this age group in the US.
Reports stated that it was the FDA that approached the two companies for a vaccine for kids, meaning the process of approval of Covid-19 vaccine for children would be much quicker in this case.
FDA’s interim head Janet Woodcock was quoted by AFP as saying that the availability of a safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine for kids under 4 years of age was a top priority at this juncture.
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In a scene at odds with Canadians' reputation for niceness and rule-following, thousands of protesters railing against vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions descended on the capital over the weekend, deliberately blocking traffic around Parliament Hill. Some urinated and parked on the National War Memorial. One danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A number carried signs and flags with swastikas. In the aftermath of Canada's biggest pandemic protest to date, the demonstrators have found little sympathy in a country where more than 80% are vaccinated. Many people were outraged by some of the crude behavior. AP
Aishwaryaa Rajinikanth, filmmaker and daughter of superstar Rajinikanth posted her pic on Instagram to make the official announcement regarding her Covid status. In her social media post, she urged fans to wear mask and get vaccinated.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands recorded 22 new COVID-19 cases, five more than the previous day, pushing the tally to 9,826, a health department official said on Wednesday. – PTI
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Arunachal Pradesh reported more recoveries than new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday as 583 people were cured in the last 24 hours, a Health Department official said. The state reported 246 new cases, taking the tally to 62,656, he said.
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1,733 deaths were recorded in India in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 4,97,975, as per Union Health Ministry
India reports 1,61,386 fresh COVID cases and 2,81,109 recoveries in the last 24 hours
Active cases: 16,21,603
Total recoveries: 3,95,11,307
Daily positivity rate: 9.26%
Total vaccination: 167.29 crore
Mizoram reports 2573 new COVID-19 cases and 3 death in the last 24 hours. Active cases 15,338 (ANI)
With the addition of 1,482 new cases of COVID-19, the tally of infections in Maharashtra's Nashik district reached 4,68,251 on Tuesday, an official said. At least 2,874 patients were discharged from hospitals, while six died of the infection during the day, raising the count of recoveries to 4,45,983 and toll to 8,813, he said. The district is currently left with 13,450 active cases, the official added. (PTI)
The Delhi High Court Tuesday termed as “absurd” a Delhi government order making it compulsory to wear a mask while driving alone in the context of COVID-19 and asked why the decision was still prevailing. “It is a Delhi government order, why don't you withdraw it. It is absurd actually. You are sitting in your own car and you must wear the mask?” the bench said. “Why is this order prevailing? Take instructions,” a bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Jasmeet Singh told the Delhi government counsel. The observation by the bench came when the counsel representing the Delhi government shared an incident of a man being challaned for not wearing a mask while sitting in his car along with his mother and sipping coffee with windows up. (PTI)
Nagaland on Tuesday reported its first Omicron variant of COVID-19 case, a senior health department official said. Principal Director, Health and Family Welfare, Dr Neikrielie Khimiao said a total of 152 samples were sent from Nagaland to the Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development, Imphal for whole genome sequencing test. The reports were received on January 31, of which 73 cases were reported positive with 54 Omicron variants and 19 Delta variants. Nagaland Health minister S Pangnyu Phom in a tweet confirmed the detection of 54 cases of Omicron in the state. (PTI)
Delhi recorded 2,683 new Covid-19 infections on Tuesday along with 27 more deaths and 4,837 recoveries, according to official data. The national capital's active cases now stand at 16,6548.
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According to a health department bulletin on Tuesday, Sikkim recorded 98 more Covid-19 infections, taking the tally to 38,250. The bulletin also stated that the state's death toll was pushed to 432 and it now has 852 active COVID-19 cases, while 36,285 people have recovered from the disease and 681 patients have migrated to other states.
After dropping below the 50,000 mark for a day, fresh COVID-19 cases in Kerala on Tuesday rose to 51,887 raising the caseload to 60,77,556 in the state. The southern state had reported 42,154 cases a day ago. Kerala on Tuesday also reported 1,205 deaths which raised the total fatalities in the state to 55,600, according to a government release. Of the deaths, 24 were reported in the last 24 hours, 118 were those which occurred in the last few days but were not recorded due to late receipt of documents and 1,063 were designated as COVID-19 deaths after receiving appeals based on the new guidelines of the Centre and the directions of the Supreme Court, the release said. (PTI)
The World Health Organization says overuse of gloves, “moon suits” and the use of billions of masks and vaccination syringes to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus have spurred a huge glut of health care waste worldwide. The UN health agency reported Tuesday that tens of thousands of tons of extra medical waste has strained waste management systems and is threatening both health and the environment, pointing to a “dire need” to improve those systems and get a response from both governments and people. “Part of the message for the public is to become more of a conscious consumer,” said Dr. Margaret Montgomery, technical officer of WHO's water, sanitation, hygiene and health unit. “In terms of the volume, it's enormous.” “We find that people are wearing excessive PPE,” Montgomery said, referring to personal protection equipment. The agency says most of the roughly 87,000 tons of such equipment – including what she called “moon suits” and gloves — obtained from March 2020 to November 2021 to battle COVID-19 has ended up as waste. More than 8 billion doses of vaccine administered globally have produced 143 tons of extra waste in terms of syringes, needles and safety boxes. (AP)
The health ministry has announced that Nepal recorded 5,583 new cases of COVID-19 along with 8,237 recoveries and 9 deaths on Tuesday. As of now, there are 74,952 active cases of COVID-19 across the country and so far, 11,752 people have succumbed to the viral infection across Nepal, the Ministry of Health and Population has said. Nepal's coronavirus infection tally reached 1,088,251 on Tuesday, reported PTI.
Tripura logged 143 new Coronavirus cases on Tuesday, pushing the total tally in the northeastern state to 1,00,364, a senior health official was quoted as saying by PTI. The official further informed that six more deaths were recorded taking the total death toll to 902. The state's positivity rate now stands at 3.41 per cent.
Athletes and team officials are testing positive for COVID-19 at much higher rates than other people arriving in China for the Beijing Olympics, organizers said Tuesday. Figures released by local organizers showed 16 of 379 athletes and officials who arrived Monday tested positive for COVID-19. They have been taken into isolation hotels to limit the spread of the infection and could miss their events. The positive test rate of 4.2% for athletes and officials compared to 0.66% for Olympic “stakeholders,” a group which includes workers and media. Only seven of 1,059 people in that category arriving at Beijing were positive in similar tests Monday. (AP)
Pakistan on Tuesday launched a massive door-to-door coronavirus vaccination drive involving about 55,000 teams to administer the vaccine, in an effort to combat the Omicron-driven fifth wave of the pandemic. Planning Minister Asad Umar, who is chief of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), said that about 55,000 teams will conduct the drive aimed at providing vaccination services at the doorstep. The teams would administer first, second and booster doses as per demand on the occasion. (PTI)
Denmark on Tuesday ended most of the Covid-19 curbs as it no longer considers the COVID-19 outbreak “a socially critical disease,” as per a report in Associated Press. The reason for that is that while the omicron variant is surging in Denmark, it's not placing a heavy burden on the health system and the country has a high vaccination rate, officials said as quoted by AP.
A sub-variant of the highly contagious Omicron coronavirus strain is even more infectious than the original version, according to a study conducted in Denmark. The researchers examined the transmission of Omicron subvariant BA.2 versus BA.1 in 8,541 Danish households and 17,945 household members. The yet-to-be peer-reviewed finding, posted on the preprint repository MedRxiv, indicates that the rapid spread of BA.2 could be related to an inherent increased transmissibility of the sub-variant. There is also evidence to support immune evasive properties of the BA.2 sub-variant, the researchers said. (PTI)
Britain has started counting possible COVID-19 reinfections in its daily coronavirus data, changing its approach to reflect the increased number of people catching the disease for a second time as the Omicron variant predominates. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) added around 840,000 cases to the cumulative total, taking it to 17.3 million coronavirus infections reported. Britain's daily COVID statistics previously would only count people who had tested positive for the first time to avoid double-counting people who had received multiple positive test results for the same infection. However, with variants such as Omicron leading to an increase in reinfections, the UKHSA said it would change its method to treat positive tests as separate infections if there was at least 90 days between test results. The change took effect on Monday. (Reuters)
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As per a recent study, the prevalent COVID-19 vaccines are inducing robust protection against severe illness and hospitalisation caused by Covid-19 Delta variant and Covid-19 Omicron variant.
PTI reported that the research published in the journal Nature has shown that the Covid-19 vaccines build and induce protection against severe Covid disease via cellular immunity or by producing protective immune cells, such as killer and memory cells in humans.
Researchers said that the induced cellular immunity protects from severe COVID-19 disease even if and when Coronavirus' Omicron variant evades neutralising antibodies.
In its research, the team at Israel's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) studied samples from 47 individuals vaccinated with Johnson & Johnson or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to arrive at the conclusion.
Corresponding author Dan H Barouch was quoted saying that the research data provides immunological context for the observation that current vaccines still provide robust protection against severe disease and hospitalisation due to the Omicron variant despite substantially reduced neutralising antibody responses and increased breakthrough infection.
The recipients of the researchers had been vaccinated by either the Johnson & Johnson or Pfizer vaccines.
Anti-vaccine group Healing the Divide's founder Iris Koh has been denied bail in the High Court as the prosecution said that at least 20 patients were involved in an alleged vaccination fraud conspiracy that she has been charged with, a first of its kind case opposing COVID-19 treatment in Singapore.
Koh, 46, was last week charged with conspiring with general practitioner Jipson Quah, 33, to make false representations to the Ministry of Health (MOH) that unvaccinated people were given the Beijing-produced Sinopharm vaccine as a protection against coronavirus, when they were not, The Straits Times newspaper reported on Tuesday.
She was arrested on Jan 21, 2022. (PTI)
Seventeen more COVID-19 patients, including two children, have succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours in Odisha, taking the toll to 8,629, a health department bulletin said on Tuesday.
At least 3,086 fresh infections, 243 less than the previous day, raised the tally to 12,52,326, it said.
The state had on Monday logged 3,329 coronavirus cases and 18 deaths.
The daily infection caseload plunged by 47.6 per cent from 5,891 a week ago.
The test positivity rate stood at 5.2 per cent as the fresh cases were detected from 59,286 sample tests in the past 24 hours, the bulletin said.
Khurda district, where Bhubaneswar is located, recorded 652 new infections, followed by 325 in Cuttack. (PTI)
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The active cases in Ladakh decreased to 1,087 as 250 coronavirus patients have been cured and discharged on Monday while the Union Territory has reported 125 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the tally to 25,994, officials said.
The UT has recorded 224 covid-related deaths — 165 in Leh and 59 in Kargil — since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020, they said.
There was no death reported from the Union Territory on Monday, they said.
As many as 250 patients were cured and discharged from hospitals in Ladakh. Of these, 129 were discharged in Leh and 121 in Kargil, while the total number of cured patients is 24,710, they said.
Of the total 125 fresh cases, 68 were reported from Leh district and 57 from Kargil district, they said.
The total number of COVID-19 active cases in Ladakh has gone down to 1,087, including 747 in Leh and 340 in Kargil district. (PTI)
Puducherry confirmed 640 new coronavirus cases during the last 24 hours ending 10 a.m. on Tuesday raising the overall tally to 1,61,891.
The new cases were identified at the end of examination of 3,366 samples and the cases were spread over Puducherry (380), Karaikal 179, Yanam 71 and Mahe 10.
Four more people succumbed to the infection during last 24 hours raising the overall toll to 1,935. The deceased were in the age groups ranging between 33 and 75. They died either of severe covid pneumonia or septic shock.
Director of Health G Sriramulu said in a release that the active cases were 9,267 of which 144 were in hospitals taking treatment and the remaining 9123 were in home quarantine.
He said 1,069 patients recovered and were discharged during last twenty-four hours while overall recoveries were 1, 50,689.
The test positivity rate was 19.01 percent while fatality and recovery rates were 1.20 percent and 93.08 percent, respectively.
The Department of Health has tested so far 21,61,843 samples and has found 18,11,871 out of them to be negative.
Sriramulu said the Department had administered so far 15,35,643 doses which comprised 9,21,744 first doses, 6,06,138 second and 7761 booster doses. (PTI)
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With the addition of 628 new cases of coronavirus, the infection count in Maharashtra's Thane district has gone up to 7,02,567, an official said on Tuesday.
These new cases were reported on Monday, he said.
The virus also claimed the lives of seven more people, raising the death toll in the district to 11,785, he said, adding that the COVID-19 mortality rate in Thane stood at 1.67 per cent.
In neighbouring Palghar district, the COVID-19 case count has gone up to 1,62,081, while the death toll stands at 3,372, another official said. (PTI)
In fresh guidelines to ease COVID-19 curbs in 11 districts of Maharashtra, including Mumbai, the state government has allowed an increase in the number of guests at marriage functions, and also permitted swimming pools, water parks, theatres and restaurants to remain open with 50 per cent capacity subject to nod of the competent authority.
After a surge COVID-19 cases last month, the state has now been recording a dip in the new infections reported daily.
On Monday, Maharashtra reported 15,140 new coronavirus cases, 7,304 less than the day before, and 39 fatalities due to the infection, according to the state health department.
The fresh guidelines issued late Monday night have relaxed the curbs in 11 districts of the state where over 90 per cent of the eligible people have received the first dose of vaccine against COVID-19 and 70 per cent have received both the doses.
These 11 districts are Mumbai, Pune, Bhandara, Sindhudurg, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Satara, Sangli, Gondia, Kolhapur and Chandrapur.
As per the fresh guidelines issued by state Chief Secretary Debashish Chakrabarty, all national parks and tourist spots in the state will remain open, while spas can function at 50 per cent capacity.
There shall be no limit on the number of people to attend a funeral, as per the order. (PTI)
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Andaman and Nicobar Islands has come down to 365 as 54 more people were cured of the disease and 17 tested positive for the infection in the last 24 hours, a health department official said on Tuesday.
Single-day recoveries outnumbered new infections in the Union Territory for the second consecutive day, he said.
The active caseload was at 402 the previous day.
The fresh cases raised the tally in the archipelago to 9,794, while 9,300 people have recuperated from the disease so far, he said. (PTI)
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The number of active COVID-19 cases in Andaman and Nicobar Islands has come down to 365 as 54 more people were cured of the disease and 17 tested positive for the infection in the last 24 hours, a health department official said on Tuesday.
Single-day recoveries outnumbered new infections in the Union Territory for the second consecutive day, he said.
The active caseload was at 402 the previous day.
The fresh cases raised the tally in the archipelago to 9,794, while 9,300 people have recuperated from the disease so far, he said. (PTI)
Veteran actor Shabana Azmi on Tuesday said she has tested positive for the novel coronavirus and is under home isolation.
The 71-year-old actor shared her COVID-19 diagnosis in an Instagram post. She also urged those who came in close contact with her to get tested.
“Have tested positive for Covid today. Have isolated myself at home and request all those who were in close contact with me to please get tested,” Azmi wrote in the caption. (PTI)
Health ministry's latest update shows that India has recorded a single-day rise of 1,67,059 COVID-19 cases. India's Covid death tally has risen to 4,14,69,499 with 1,192 fatalities.
Health ministry's latest update shows that India's active COVID-19 cases have declined to 17,43,059
India Covid-19 Status in last 24 hours:
New COVID cases: 1,67,059;
Death recorded: 1192;
Recoveries registered: 2,54,076;
Active case: 17,43,059;
Daily positivity rate: 11.69%
In a major sigh of relief for India, country's daily aggregate of new Coronavirus cases has dropped below 2 lakh.
On Tuesday, India reported 1,67,059 new COVID-19 cases, 1192 deaths and 2,54,076 recoveries.
Uttar Pradesh on Monday reported 6,626 fresh COVID-19 cases and 18 more deaths, even as it achieved 100 per cent first dose coronavirus vaccine coverage for its adult population.
In a tweet on the vaccination milestone, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath termed the day “historic”.
The state's COVID-19 tally now stands at 20,19,549 and the death toll at 23,207, according to officials.
Of the latest deaths, two each were reported from Prayagraj and Bijnor, the state government said in a statement here.
As many as 6,946 more COVID-19 patients recuperated from the viral disease, taking the total number of recoveries to 19,41,506, it said.
There are 54,836 active cases in the state, it added. (PTI)
Government employees in Odisha, who test positive for COVID-19, can take leave for a week, an official notification said on Monday.
The duration can be extended on production of a medical certificate, it said.
“In the present situation of third Covid wave, it has been decided that seven days' leave is to be allowed in case any employee contracts the COVID-19 infection. This directive will come into force with immediate effect,” the notification said.
Earlier, government employees testing positive for the virus were allowed 14 days' leave. (PTI)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday he has tested positive for COVID-19 but is “feeling fine” and will continue to work remotely from home.
Trudeau said two of his children have COVID-19 and a test Monday revealed he has it as been infected as well. And he used a televised virtual press conference to denounce anti-vaccine protesters who filled Canada's capital to complain about COVID restrictions.
“Canadians were shocked and quite frankly disgusted by the behaviour displayed by some people in our nation's capital,” Trudeau said. “I want to be clear. We are not intimated by those who hurl insults and abuse at small businesses and steal from the homeless. We won't give in those who fly racist flags. We won't cave to those who engage in vandalism or dishonour the memory of our veterans.” (AP)
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