Omicron Coronavirus India Live News, Coronavirus Vaccination Statistics and Registration Latest Updates, Covid-19 Cases and Deaths in India Recent Updates, Covid Restrictions Feb 18 Latest Updates: India on Friday morning reported 25,920 new cases of Coronavirus infections and 492 related deaths in last 24 hours, as per the official data shared by the Union Ministry of Health. The daily new infections were recorded less than one lakh for 12 consecutive days. The ministry has revealed that the active cases further declined to 2,92,092 comprising 0.68 per cent of the total infections, while the national recovery rate has further improved to 98.12 per cent.
With cases of Covid-19 showing a consistent decline in the country, several states have already begun the process of relaxing Covid restrictions. The Delhi University resumed its offline classes for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Thursday afte nearly two-year-long lull. Goa on Thursday decided to reopen all educational institutions from Class 1 to 12 from February 21. Even the Karnataka government on Thursday said that a mandatory negative RT-PCR test report of passengers coming from Kerala and Goa, will no longer be needed. Gujarat Chief Minister’s Office also announced that night curfew from 12am to 5am would be enforced in only two cities of the state, Ahmedabad and Vadodara from February 18 to February 25.
Internationally speaking, the Covid-19 battle in Hong Kong is intensifying with each passing day. According to media reports, Hong Kong’s hospitals were almost at full capacity on Thursday. New cases in Hong Kong had multiplied by 60 times so far this month and the media reported that testing would become mandatory for everyone from March, as per a Reuters report.
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Coronavirus India Live News: Covid-19 Omicron Cases in India Live Count, Coronavirus Lockdown, Night Curfew Guidelines and Restrictions Live Updates
#covid19 | Odisha government decided to lift the night curfew in all urban areas with effect from today (ANI)
RUSSIA REPORTS 180,071 NEW CORONAVIRUS CASES IN PAST 24 HOURS (VS. 180,622 CASES ON PREVIOUS DAY) (Reuters)
With 25,920 people testing positive for coronavirus infection in a day, India's tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,27,80,235, while the active cases dipped below three lakh after 43 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. (PTI)
Hong Kong parents rushed children as young as 3 years old to vaccination centres this week as the government lowered the age limit for the shots and the deaths of two toddlers exacerbated concerns in a city struggling to cope with a COVID-19 surge. The government approved children 3 and older to take China's Sinovac vaccine from Feb. 15, while those 5 and older can take the BioNTech shot. The measures come as the Chinese territory has recorded a 60-fold surge in infections since Feb. 1, overwhelming the global financial centre's hospitals and testing facilities. (Reuters)
Hong Kong has identified more than 20,000 hotel rooms for quarantine accommodation, leader Carrie Lam said on Friday, as property developers piled in to show support as the global financial hub battles a surge in COVID-19 cases. Lam said 21 hotels had expressed interest in turning their facilities into isolation venues, exceeding “by a large margin the government's original target of 7,000 to 10,000 rooms”. (Reuters)
Cuba's widespread COVID-19 vaccination coverage and early move to inoculate its children proved pivotal in beating back the highly infectious Omicron variant before it ever took hold on the island, local and international experts say. Omicron arrived in Cuba in December but fell far short of the pronounced spike in cases seen in many other places and infections have since fallen off by more than 80%, official data shows. (Reuters)
The World Health Organization said on Thursday countries struggling with surging COVID-19 infections may shorten the recommended quarantine duration of 14 days in some situations. The U.N. agency said its new guidelines may be helpful for places where essential services are under pressure. (Reuters)
The union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands reported more COVID-19 recoveries than fresh cases as 21 people recuperated from the disease while eight new infections pushed the tally to 9,994, a health department official said here on Friday. The archipelago now has 83 active COVID-19 cases, while 9,782 people have recovered from the disease so far, he said. The COVID-19 death toll remained at 129 as no fresh fatality was reported in the last 24 hours, the official said. (PTI)
One more person succumbed to COVID-19 infection in Arunachal Pradesh, pushing the death toll to 295, a senior health department official said here on Friday. The COVID-19 caseload in the frontier state rose to 64,200 as 41 more people tested positive for the infection, he said. (PTI)
Japan set a new record for daily deaths from COVID-19 in a wave of Omicron-fuelled fatalities that a government-affiliated researcher estimated may stretch into April. Newly recorded fatalities rose to 271 on Thursday, according to a tally by national broadcaster NHK, the third straight day over 200. There have been 2,446 deaths so far in February, already the second-deadliest month in the two-year pandemic. (Reuters)
In freezing temperatures and surrounded by trucks and demonstration banners, two Canadians staged a jacuzzi protest on an Ottawa street on Thursday to call for an end to COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates. Protesters Jean-Philippe and Gabriel, who declined to give their last names, sat in a portable hot tub in central Ottawa, as police warned protesters of “imminent” action to clear them from the capital and began making arrests to end a crisis that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned was threatening public safety. (Reuters)
Hundreds of truckers clogging the streets of Canada's capital stood their ground and defiantly blasted their horns Thursday as police poured in, threatening to break up the nearly three-week protest against the country's COVID-19 restrictions. Busloads of police arrived near Ottawa's Parliament Hill, and workers put up extra fences around government buildings. Police also essentially began sealing off much of the downtown area to outsiders to prevent them from coming to the aid of the protesters. (AP)
South Korea will extend restaurant dining hours but maintain a six-person limit on private social gatherings as it wrestles with a massive coronavirus wave driven by the highly infectious omicron variant. The 109,831 new cases reported on Friday was another record and about a 25-fold increase from the levels seen in mid-January, when omicron became the country's dominant strain. The more than 516,000 infections counted in the past seven days alone raised South Korea's caseload to over 1.75 million. (AP)
Active case: 2,92,092
Daily positivity rate: 2.07%
Total recoveries: 4,19,77,238
Total vaccination: 1,74,64,99,461 pic.twitter.com/5nCtJV1u6m
— ANI (@ANI) February 18, 2022
With the addition of 114 coronavirus positive cases, the infection count in Thane district of Maharashtra increased to 7,07,677, an official said on Friday. These new cases were reported on Thursday, he said. The virus claimed the lives of four persons, which pushed the death toll in the district to 11,859. Thane's mortality rate is 1.67 per cent, he added. In neighboring Palghar district, the caseload has grown to 1,63,244, while the death toll stood at 3,391, another official said. (PTI)
California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced the first shift by a state to an “endemic” approach to the coronavirus pandemic that emphasizes prevention and quick reactions to outbreaks over mandates, a milestone nearly two years in the making that harkens to a return to a more normal existence. Newsom said the approach — which includes pushing back against false claims and other misinformation — means maintaining a wary watchfulness attuned to warning signs of the next deadly new surge or variant. (AP)
Singing and dancing will resume in nightclubs in Sydney and Melbourne from Friday, while most mandatory check-ins have been scrapped as officials lifted nearly all COVID-19 curbs in Australia's biggest cities amid a steady fall in hospital cases. The relaxation in social distancing rules comes ahead of the full reopening of Australia's international borders on Monday after nearly two years, boosting business confidence battered by stop-start lockdowns. (Reuters)
— ANI (@ANI) February 18, 2022
The positivity rate stands at 22.01% pic.twitter.com/J2aNGzepfn
— ANI (@ANI) February 18, 2022
Mexican health ministry data showed on Thursday that coronavirus fatalities were up by 470 to bring the total death toll to 314,598 since the pandemic started, as per a Reuters report.
Coronavirus India Live News: Covid-19 Omicron Cases in India Live Count, Coronavirus Lockdown, Night Curfew Guidelines and Restrictions Live Updates
