Omicron News LIVE Updates: With 2,09,918 people testing positive for the coronavirus infection in a day, India’s total tally of cases increased to over 4.13 crore, according to Union health ministry data updated on Monday.
Schools for classes 8 to 12, colleges and varsities will reopen in West Bengal on February 3, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Monday.
After reporting more than 50,000 fresh COVID-19 cases daily for the last few days, Kerala on Monday logged 42,154 new infections which raised the caseload to 60,25,669.
US scientists have developed a rapid and sensitive diagnostic system, consisting of a smartphone app and a testing kit, to detect SARS-CoV-2, its variants and the flu virus.
It can be readily adapted for other pathogens with pandemic potential including deadly variants of SARS-CoV-2 and flu, they said.
The Centre on Monday opposed in the Supreme Court the arguments that people are losing their jobs and rations allegedly due to the COVID-19 vaccine mandates issued by various states and authorities, saying nobody is losing anything.
Housing sales mostly declined during the first and the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic but prices did not fall in most of the cities but rather increased in some cities, according to the Economic Survey 2021-22.
About 90 percent of India’s adult population has received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine whereas over 70 percent have been administered both doses, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Monday.
The Delhi High Court Monday refused to entertain a petition by a Congress leader seeking postponement of assembly elections in five states on the grounds that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 was spreading fast.
Japan began administering booster shots to medical workers in December, but has only provided such inoculations to 2.7% of the population after delaying a decision to cut the interval between the first two coronavirus shots and a booster to six months from the initial eight.
“And I would urge anyone who’s taken that money and didn’t really need it to make contact with HMRC.” “Anyone who thinks that they can escape the long arm of the HMRC is making a great mistake,” he said.
Vaccination is not merely a health response but is critical for opening up the economy, particularly contact-intensive services.
Ladakh has reported 133 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the virus tally to 25,869 while the active cases in the union territory have come down to 1,212, officials said.
Australia’s federal government will offer extra payments to aged care staff as over 1,200 nursing homes deal with COVID-19 outbreaks that have caused hundreds of deaths of elderly residents this year and staff shortages.
The test positivity rate stood at 5.87 percent as the fresh infections were detected from 56,708 sample tests conducted in the past 24 hours, the bulletin said.
Single-day recoveries outnumbered new COVID-19 cases in Andaman and Nicobar Islands as 81 people were cured of the disease and 34 tested positive for the infection in the last 24 hours, a health department official said on Monday.
Jharkhand witnessed a dip in daily COVID-19 caseload as 733 people tested positive for the disease, 305 less than the previous day, with the tally mounting to 4,27,912, a health department official said on Monday.
“We’ve reopened with COVID measures.
The country of 10.7 million reported its highest daily tally of cases on Wednesday – 54,689, and the numbers on other recent days have ranked among the highest since the start of the epidemic.
China detected 37 new cases of COVID-19 among people linked to the Olympic Games on Sunday, up from 34 a day earlier, the organising committee of the Beijing 2022 Winter Games said.
Maharashtra has reported 22,444 new coronavirus positive cases, which increased its caseload to 77,05,969, while 50 patients succumbed to the infection, taking the fatality count to 1,42,572, the health department said.
Uttar Pradesh reported 8,100 fresh COVID-19 cases and 26 more fatalities in a day while the tally of active infections in the state reached 55,574, according to an official statement issued here on Sunday.
Beneficiaries in the age group of 15 to 18 years will start receiving their second dose of COVID-19 vaccine from Monday, officials said.