New Delhi: With Christmas Eve and the New Year approaching, several states have once again witnessed a surge in daily coronavirus cases due to the arrival of the new Covid-19 variant, Omicron.
States like Maharashtra, Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala witnessed a spike in daily Covid-19 cases on Wednesday. While Delhi recorded 125 cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, the highest spike in 6 months, Maharashtra recorded over 1,000 infections today.
Restrictions and guidelines have been announced by the state governments to prevent the resurgence of the third wave. In Delhi, CM Arvind Kejriwal convened a review meeting on preparedness and management of Omicron with a focus on availability of beds, oxygen, medicines along with isolation wards if needed.
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1. Delhi recorded 125 cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, the highest spike in the national capital in 6 months. On June 22, 134 cases of Kovid were registered in the city. Meanwhile, 57 cases of the new variant Omicron have been reported in Delhi so far.
2. Maharashtra also witnessed a huge spike in daily coronavirus cases with 1,201 new infections being recorded in the last 24 hours. This is the state’s highest daily Covid tally since November 17. Mumbai alone also reported 490 new coronavirus positive cases, a spike of over 160 over the previous day.
3. Maharashtra also reported three deaths today. Meanwhile, no new case of Omicron variant was reported in the state. Maharashtra currently has 65 cases of the new Kovid variant.
4. Karnataka registered 321 new COVID cases in the last 24 hours. The state health department also reported that 253 recovered from the virus and 4 died in the last 24 hours.
5. Gujarat reported 91 new coronavirus cases and two deaths in the last 24 hours, the highest in several months. Notably, the daily tally had dropped to single-digit on September 19 this year. The caseload in the state rose to 8,28,794 on Wednesday, while the death toll rose to 10,106.
6. In view of the sudden increase in daily COVID cases and the fear of omicron, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a meeting on the COVID-19 situation in the country on Thursday. Official sources close to news agency PTI said that PM Modi will take stock of the pandemic situation across the country.
7. India has so far reported close to 250 cases of omicrons in 15 states and union territories, though at least 90 infected people have either recovered or migrated.
8. Several state governments have announced restrictions and issued guidelines to prevent further spread of COVID-19. Delhi has announced a complete ban on all public events and gatherings to celebrate Christmas and New Year, while Mumbai allowed people (up to 50 per cent capacity) in closed spaces and 25 per cent capacity in open spaces. Is.
9. The Health Ministry has also warned all the states and union territories that omicron The type of coronavirus is at least three times more permeable than its delta version and asked them to “activate” the war rooms, keep analyzing even small trends and surges and continue to analyze them at the district and local level. But keep taking strict and quick preventive action.
10. Other states such as Delhi, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Kerala and Jammu and Kashmir have increased surveillance to trace, track and quarantine the contacts of COVID-19 positive persons.
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