Coronavirus News Highlights: Eight more students test positive at Maharashtra school, tally now 90

Eight more students of the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district have tested positive forCovid-19, taking the number of such cases at the institute to 90, a health department official said Tuesday.

. Goa CM Pramod Sawant said that no decision has been taken on night curfew yet even as the positivity rate of Covid-19 has increased. "However, we need to take a strict decision if the number of Covid-19 cases continues to increase," he said.

. Cumulative number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in India reaches 143 crore, says health ministry

. The coronavirus tally in Madhya Pradesh rose to 793,768 with the addition of 42 new cases on Tuesday, while one more patient succumbed to the infection in the state, health department officials said.

. Gujarat reported 394Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, its highest single-day addition since June 14, when the figure was 405, raising the state's tally to 829,957, an official said.

. The national capital has reported 496 new Covid-19 cases in a day, the highest since June 4, with the positivity rate rising to 0.89 per cent along with one fatality due to the infection, according to data shared by the health department here on Tuesday.

. The state reported 2,172 cases and 22 deaths, taking the respective tallies to 6,661,486 and 141,476, respectively, according to the Public Health Department.The financial capital of Mumbai reported 1,377 cases while the Mumbai metropolitan region logged 1,680 cases.

. More than 400 FIRs were registered and 754 challans issued for violations ofCovid-appropriate behaviour, including 411 pertaining to violation of night curfew, as the curbs kicked in across thenational capital amid rising cases of coronavirus infections, the Delhi Police said.

. The Omicron variant was estimated to account for 58.6 per cent of the coronavirus variants circulating in the United States for the week ending December 25, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Delta variant accounts for 41.1 per centof all US Covid-19 cases, according to the public health agency's data on Tuesday.

The agency said the data includes modelled projections that may differ from weighted estimates generated at later dates.

. 13 students of a school in Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh tested positive for Covid-19, said Medical Officer (Zonal Hospital) Bilaspur

. Omicron infection was confirmed in two persons in Puducherry. An 80-year-old man and a 20-year-old man have been diagnosed with the variant, said G Sriramulu, Director Health, Puducherry UT.

. Kerala reports 2,472 new cases, 38 deaths, and 3,052 recoveries over the past 24 hours. Active cases stood at 20,400. The death tally increased to 47,066 after 206 deaths were added as per the new guidelines of the Central government, Kerala govt said in an official statement.

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. Malaysia has lifted a travel ban on eight southern African countries that had been among the first to report the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, citing the greater spread of the variant worldwide, its health minister said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, authorities said they would cut the wait time for booster vaccine doses amid concerns over the spread of Omicron, Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin told reporters.

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. With an unpremeditated spike in Omicron cases worldwide, often coupled with infections caused by the Delta variant, a study led by an international team of researchers shows that the vaccine-evading newer variant enhances the neutralising immunity of the Delta variant.

. The number of Covid-19 cases — propelled by the surge in the Omicron variant — hit 1.44 million over the past 24 hours, marking a new global high. The seven-day average of Covid cases was around 841,000 on Monday, a 49 per cent rise from November 24, when Omicron was first identified in Africa.

. Cinema halls, spas, gyms, multiplexes, banquet halls, auditoriums & sports complexes to be closed with immediate effect.

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. Today there're only a few cases of Omicron. Is BJP conspiring to postpone elections? There're many speculations. Election Commission's credibility as an independent institution is suspicious nowadays as they attended a meeting called by PMO: Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel

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. Even as the tourism industry in Goa crosses its fingers over the increasing footprint of Omicron, both in India and the source market, Europe, industry stakeholders have demanded a more relaxed tax regime as well as streamlining of GST and tax structures for travel agents and tour operators.

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. The Spanish Ministry of Health said that the 14-day Covid-19 incidence has increased by 294 points in the four days from December 23 to 1,206.21 cases per 100,000 people after the Christmas holiday weekend.

This increase, which comes after the Ministry reported 214,619 new infections over the past four days, was the highest 14-day incidence ever recorded in Spain since the pandemic started in early 2020, reports Xinhua news agency.

. Cipla Limited announced on Tuesday that it has been granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) permission by the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) for the launch of Molnupiravir, an anti-viral drug to treat mild to moderate Covid-19.

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. As the Covid-19 positivity rate has been above 0.5% for the past few days, we are enforcing Level-I (Yellow alert) of the Graded Response Action Plan. A detailed order on restrictions to be implemented will be released soon: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal

. The "sacred" Ashes Test in Sydney will take place as scheduled next week even as Covid threatens to disrupt the series, the New South Wales health minister said on Tuesday.

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. India on Tuesday granted approval to anti-Covid pill Molnupiravir, Serum Institute of India's Covid-19 vaccine Covovax and Biological E's vaccine Corbevax after an expert panel of the country's central drug authority recommended granting emergency use authorisation.

. India has logged 653 cases of the Omicron variant of coronavirus across 21 states and UTs so far out of which 186 have recovered or migrated, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday.

. In a great relief to the Karnataka Health department, which is in a battle mode in taking preventive measures to ensure the new SARS-CoV2 variant Omicron doesn't spread across the state, as many as 15 students affected with the Omicron variant have fully recovered and been discharged from the designated hospitals. The data is confirmed by the Union Health ministry.

. Out of 38,195 Covid deaths as on November 30 this year, Karnataka was able to elicit applications from the family members of only 25,601 (67%) for providing them with a compensation of Rs. 1.5 lakh (Rs. 1 lakh if BPL, 50,000 if APL).

. Maharashtra's health sector came under severe strain in 2021, as it faced the onslaught of the ferocious second wave of Covid-19 led by the Delta variant, reporting a record number of daily infections and deaths, and towards the year-end saw the emergence of a high number of Omicron cases.

. Amid fears of the Omicron variant spreading, Bengaluru Police Commissioner Kamal Pant issued prohibitory orders on Monday evening and vowed to curb non-essential travel during the night curfew hours.

. With the administration of 72,87,547 vaccine doses in the last 24 hrs, India’s Covid-19 vaccination coverage exceeds 142.47 crore. The recovery rate of 98.40% is the highest since March 2020. Weekly positivity Rate at 0.64% remains less than 1% from last 44 days: Union Health Ministry

. BCCI President and former India captain Sourav Ganguly has been admitted to hospital after he tested positive for Covid-19, news agency PTI reported quotingBCCI sources.

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. Twelve more Omicron cases have been reported in Telangana, taking the total number of cases of the new coronavirus variant in the state to 55, the Health department said on Monday.

. President Joe Biden on Monday said some US hospitals could be "overrun" by Covid cases, but the country is generally well prepared to meet the latest surge and Americans need not panic.

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. An expert panel of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) on Monday recommended granting permission to manufacture and market anti-Covid pill Molnupiravir for restricted emergency use for the treatment of Covid-19 patients in the country, official sources said.

. US health authorities on Monday halved the recommended isolation time for people with asymptomatic Covid-19 infections from 10 to five days, with a surge of cases causing travel chaos and threatening wider social disruption.

Coronavirus News Highlights: Eight more students test positive at Maharashtra school, tally now 90

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