Coronavirus News Highlights: Covid forces hosts India out of Women's Asian Cup

Gujarat on Sunday reported 16,617 newCovid-19 cases, the lowest in the last five days, which raised the tally of infections to 10,62,555, the state health department said.

. India’s Covid-19 reproduction rate (R) has dropped considerably in the last three weeks after an upward movement in the first week of January, signaling a shrinking third wave, according to two scientific studies even as a government agency flags the virus’s community spread a fortnight ago.

. Nagaland on Sunday reported 107 newCovid-19 cases, 14 less than the previous day, pushing the tally to 33,585 , a health official said. The death toll remained unchanged at 705 for the second consecutive day, he said. Nagaland now has 685 activeCovid-19 cases, while 30,862 people have recuperated from the disease, including 54 in the last 24 hours.

. India were forced to withdraw from the Women's Asian Cup currently under way in Mumbai after aCovidoutbreak left the side unable to field a full side on Sunday.

The hosts were due to take the field against Taiwan for the second of their three group games, but positive tests left them unable to name the required 13 players.

. India's AFC Women's Asian Cup group A match against Chinese Taipei was on Sunday called off minutes before kickoff after as many as 12 players from the home team tested positive forCovid-19 and two were laid low by injuries.

. The severity of theCovid-19 outbreak during the third wave is low as compared to the second wave and the death rate has remained at an average of one individual succumbing to 1,000 cases, a senior Tamil Nadu government official said on Sunday. Unvaccinated individuals and those eligible to receive the 'precautionary booster dose' also pose a risk to contracting the contagion and this has emerged as a larger point of view of the medical experts who met here, Health Department Principal Secretary J Radhakrishnan said .

. Tripura'sCovid-19 caseload rose to 97,933 on Sunday as 557 more people tested positive for the infection, 397 less than the previous day, an official said.

Four fresh fatalities pushed the northeastern state's coronavirus death toll to 865, he said.

Tripura now has 8,143 active cases, while 88,857 people have recovered from the disease so far, including 606 in the last 24 hours, and 68 patients have migrated to other states to date.

. The state also recorded one fatality, taking the total tally to 422.

. In its latest technical brief, the global health body said that Omicron is soon set to replace Delta globally as a result of its immunity evading potential.

. Meghalaya on Sunday recorded 318 newCovid-19 cases, 88 less than the previous day's count, pushing the tally to 88,459, a senior health department official said.

Health Services Director Dr Aman War said that one newCovid-19 fatality pushed the death toll to 1,497.

. Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope said the decision to reopen schools for primary classes to XII from Monday was taken after complete thought was given to the issue. Schools were shut last month after a spike inCovid-19 cases across the state.

. India is set to celebrate its 73rd Republic Day, second after the Covid-19 pandemic, that has killed over 55 lakh people globally, set in. Even so, events planned on Rajpath are expected to be as grand as every year albeit with a change of plans.

. The presence of a large number of mutations, and more than 30 on its spike protein makes antibodies ineffective against the Omicron variant of Covid-19, shows a study.

. US scientists have found the cellular response that protects pigs from Covid-19, which according to them could lead to new treatments in humans.

.India's R-value which indicates the rate of spread of coronavirus has further reduced to 1.57 in the week from January 14-21 and the national peak of the third wave of the infection is expected to come in the next fortnight, according to a preliminary analysis by IIT Madras..Omicron has gone into a stage where it's more into community spread than only by travelers from abroad, given the rise in Covid cases... but it's unlike Delta. People recover early in case of Omicron: Dr Rajeev Jayadevan, who is advising Covid task force at IMA Kochi, Kerala(ANI). Covax aims to break the Covid-19 pandemic in 2022 by ensuring a steady supply of vaccines at last for the world's poorest countries -- and swiftly getting them into arms.

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. The Omicron variant of Covid-19 is in the community transmission stage in India and has become dominant in multiple metros where new cases have been rising exponentially, the INSACOG has said in its latest bulletin.

It also said BA.2 lineage, an infectious sub-variant of Omicron, has been found in a substantial fraction in the country.

. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has cancelled her wedding over new restrictions to slow the community spread of the Covid-19 Omicron variant, she told reporters on Sunday.

. Beijing city officials on Sunday said all two million residents of a neighbourhood where they identified a small cluster of Covid-19 infections will be tested, less than two weeks ahead of the start of the Winter Olympics.

.Australia coach Graham Arnold is set to miss their crucial World Cup qualifier against Vietnam on Thursday after returning a positive test for Covid-19, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.Arnold has gone into isolation ahead of the game in Melbourne and will be replaced on the sidelines by his assistant, Rene Meulensteen, the report added.. (ANI)

. India added 3,33,533 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of Covid-19 cases to 3,92,37,264, according to Union health ministry data updated on Sunday.

. Pfizer Inc Chief Executive Albert Bourla said on Saturday that an annual Covid-19 vaccine would be preferable to more frequent booster shots in fighting thecoronaviruspandemic.

Pfizer/BioNtech's Covid-19 vaccine has shown to be effective against severe disease and death caused by the heavily-mutated Omicron variant but less effective in preventing transmission. ( Reuters )

. Indonesia's Health Ministry confirmed the first two deaths from the Omicroncoronavirusvariant amid a spike in cases triggered by the more infectious virus.

The Ministry's spokesperson Siti Nadia Tarmizi on Saturday said one case was locally infected in Banten province and the other was an international traveler who passed away in the capital Jakarta, Xinhua news agency reported.

"Both patients have comorbidities," Tarmizi added. ( IANS )

Coronavirus News Highlights: Covid forces hosts India out of Women's Asian Cup

Gujarat logs 16,617 Covid-19 cases; 19 deaths

India’s R value shrinks despite Omicron’s spread into community

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