Fourth Omicron case found in Mumbai: Came to Mumbai from South Africa via Delhi, report of 25 people traveling together in flight negative

The fourth case of Omicron in India has been found in Maharashtra. According to the state health department, this person, a resident of Kalyan Dombivli near Mumbai, had returned from South Africa. His age is 33 years. He came from South Africa to Dubai, then to Delhi and from there to Mumbai on 24 November. He has not got the corona vaccine yet. He had mild fever while landing in Mumbai. Apart from this, he did not show any other symptoms of corona. He was kept at the Kovid Care Center in Kalyan for treatment.

Twelve high-risk and 23 low-risk contacts have been traced to infected patients. All the reports have come negative. The test of 25 co-passengers traveling with him on the Delhi-Mumbai flight has also come negative. Earlier, the new variant was confirmed in two patients in Karnataka and one in Jamnagar in Gujarat.

For the sixth time in India, more than 1 crore doses were taken in a day.
India has once again made a record of administering more than one crore doses of corona vaccine in a day. So far this has happened 6 times in the country, when more than one crore vaccines have been administered in a day. Earlier this happened on 27 September. Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Saturday that the Har Ghar Dastak campaign is going on in full swing in the country. This has helped in expanding the scope of vaccination. This is the reason why India has crossed another milestone in this matter.

Under the Har Ghar Dastak campaign, a vaccination program was conducted in Sonitpur district of Assam. SP Dr. Dhananjay Ghanvat was also seen commenting here.

With this, the total vaccination figure in India has crossed 127 crores. Out of these, 80 crore people have got both the first and 47 crore doses. Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar are on top in terms of maximum vaccination. Vaccination started in India from January 16 this year. It’s been 323 days.

According to government data, an average of 59.32 lakh doses have been administered in November this year as against 19.69 lakh doses per day in May. On an average 55.77 lakh vaccines were administered in October, 78.69 lakh in September and 59.29 lakh in August. Officials said that about 84.8 percent of the adult population in India has received both the first and 50%.

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Center wrote a letter to 6 states
The increase in the weekly rate of infection and death from corona in six states has worried the Center. The government has written to Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Mizoram and Jammu and Kashmir instructing them to increase vigilance.

Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said on Saturday that all states have been asked to remain vigilant. International travelers have been asked to pay special attention to the threat of the new Omicron variant.

Rapid test charge reduced at Mumbai airport, now Rs 3900 will have to be paid instead of 4500
The charge for conducting rapid corona test at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport was reduced from Saturday. The airport administration said that now passengers coming to the airport will be charged only Rs 3900 instead of Rs 4500 for the test. Apart from this, passengers will also have to pay Rs 600 for the normal RT-PCR test, the facility of which is also available at the airport itself.

FIR against woman who returned to Chandigarh from South Africa
An FIR has been registered against a woman who returned from South Africa in Chandigarh, Punjab. This woman is accused of not following the home quarantine rules. It is known that South Africa is at high-risk regarding the Omicron variant of the corona virus. Chandigarh’s Health Secretary and Nodal Officer Yashpal Garg said that the woman returned from South Africa on December 1. Its RT-PCR test was done, whose report came negative. According to the protocol, she was to remain in home quarantine for 7 days but on 2 December she went to a hotel. Read full news here…

20 dedicated counters at Delhi Airport for foreign travelers who book online testing slots prior to travel
20 dedicated counters have been set up at Terminal-3 of Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport to help conduct rapid COVID tests and RT-PCR tests. The airport authority said on Saturday that at these counters, those passengers coming from other countries will be tested, who will book their testing slots online before starting the journey.

In a tweet posted on the official Twitter account of Delhi Airport, it was told that this step has been taken to save the time of passengers. Apart from this, the physical booking counters for booking slots for the test after landing at the airport are also being increased.

Explain that due to the new guidelines implemented due to the Omicron variant of Corona in the country, passengers are having to spend a long time to get the test done after landing at the airport. This waiting time at Delhi airport is reaching up to 6 hours.

Omicron case found in Gujarat’s Jamnagar

The first case of Omicron has been reported from Jamnagar in Gujarat. According to the report, this person has returned to India from Zimbabwe. He had gone to Jamnagar after landing at Ahmedabad airport on November 28. His infection with Omicron has been confirmed by a genome sequencing test. Gujarat Health Commissioner Jai Prakash Shivhare has also confirmed this person to be infected with Omicron.

Now the number of Omicron infected in the country has increased to 3. The first two patients of Omicron were found in Karnataka. Among them is a 66-year-old foreign national, who had gone to South Africa recently, while the other is a 46-year-old health worker from Bomanahalli, Bangalore. After the positive report of both came, Omicron was found in the sample sent for genome sequencing. Read full news here…

Three people of the same family in Surat are Corona positive, not even travel history of all three
The report of a couple and their son has come corona positive in the Shrinath Society of Rander, Surat in Gujarat. There is no twin history of the three infected. The couple has also taken both doses of the vaccine. Now this society has been declared as a cluster. The administration has become alert about this. Corona testing is being increased in the society. Read full news here…

BMC’s new guideline on home quarantine amid growing threat from Omicron

In Mumbai, BMC has issued a new guideline regarding home quarantine. According to this, every morning the airport CEO will send the details of people coming from risk and high risk countries to the disaster management within 24 hours. The disaster management will send that list to the Ward Officer and the Kovid War Room. The Kovid War Room will take information about the health of the passenger 5 times a day. The ward officer will issue a notice to the secretary of the society regarding the person in home quarantine and will forbid visitors to visit his house. The team of doctors will go to checkup every day. Read full news here…

Maximum 8 cases were found in Bhopal for the second consecutive day, after visiting Mahakal, the family returned to Rajnandgaon infected

Corona cases are increasing continuously in Madhya Pradesh. 18 new positives have been found in 24 hours. For the second consecutive day, maximum 8 corona cases have been reported in Bhopal. 6 infected have been found in Indore, 2 each in Gwalior and Jabalpur. The number of active patients in the state has increased to 142. One of the infected found in Gwalior is a 48-year-old army soldier. On examination due to abdominal pain, it was found positive. The other is a 35-year-old man. He works in an oil company in Visakhapatnam. Returned to Gwalior 20 days ago. He also got tested for stomach ache.

6 people of the same family have been found corona positive in Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh. All have returned to Rajnandgaon 15 days ago after seeing Mahakal in Ujjain. After leaving Ujjain everyone became ill. They were examined in Ujjain. After the report came positive on Friday, the Rajnandgaon administration has isolated everyone there. Two children are also among the infected. Read full news here…

One Omicron infected ‘missing’ from Bengaluru
One of the two people found infected with Omicron in Karnataka is missing. The state government said that the person is missing after getting a Covid negative certificate from a private lab. The administration is trying to trace 10 more people who went missing from the airport.

Karnataka Revenue Minister R Ashok held a meeting with top officials on Omicron on Friday. He said that the missing people should be traced soon. At the same time, Gaurav Gupta, Commissioner of Bengaluru Municipal Corporation said that all the missing foreign nationals have come from South African countries. At present their phones are switched off. They have not been found even at the address given by these passengers at the airport.

8,603 new corona cases were found in the country in the last 24 hours
In the last 24 hours, 8,603 new corona cases were found in the country and 415 people died. During this, 8,190 people recovered after beating the epidemic. At present, the number of active cases is 99,974. The vaccination campaign against Corona is going on in the country. So far 1.26 billion people have been vaccinated.

5 children corona positive in Sainik School of Mainpuri

5 children of Sainik School in Mainpuri, UP have been found corona positive. These children have been quarantined in the school itself. Their families have been informed. After 5 children were found infected, antigen test of all 85 children was done, the report of all other children came negative. Among the children found infected, three are residents of Agra, one Mainpuri and one Chandauli. However, none of them have shown symptoms. The Health Department is checking the travel history of these children. Read full news here…

Omicron suspected cases rise to 30 in Maharashtra
The number of suspected cases of Omicron in Maharashtra has risen to 30. On Friday, 2,821 passengers landed at Mumbai airport from high-risk countries. Samples of 2 people have been found positive in RT-PCR test. 11,060 passengers arrived at Mumbai airport from other countries, out of which 224 got corona test. Out of these, the report of one person has come positive. 30 samples have been sent for genome sequencing.

Danger of new variant Omicron in MP

The IAS Service Meet has been postponed in view of the threat of Omicron, a new variant of Corona in Madhya Pradesh. This meeting was to be held in Bhopal from December 17 to 19. It was to be inaugurated by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. The President of the Association and Additional Chief Secretary IPC Kesari said that the meeting was postponed keeping in mind the possibility of spreading of a new variant of Corona. Kesari had advised to postpone the event. Read full news here…

Omicron infected doctor attended doctors’ conference in Bengaluru
The International Medical Conference held between November 19-21 in Bengaluru, the capital of Karnataka, has increased the concern of the administration. Actually, three doctors involved in this conference held at One Star Hotel have been found to be Corona positive. One of these people is infected with Omicron. He attended the conference for a few hours on 20 November. The very next day he started showing signs of infection. In such a situation, there is a possibility of other people involved in this meeting also getting infected.

18 corona positive out of 16 thousand passengers coming from at risk countries
So far, RT-PCR test of 16000 passengers of 58 flights coming from at risk countries has been done. Of these, 18 corona positives have been found. Their report has been sent for genome sequencing. Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya gave this information in the Lok Sabha on Friday. The 11 countries that have been placed in the at risk category include the United Kingdom, South Africa, Brazil, Botswana, China, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore and Israel.

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