Coronavirus Omicron in India News Highlights 9 January 2022: Telangana reports 1673 new COVID-19 cases today

Coronavirus in Delhi: Delhi logs 22,751 fresh Covid cases and 17 deaths in 24 hours. Positivity rate jumps to 23.53%

Coronavirus in Gujarat: Gujarat reported 6,275 new Covid cases in 24 hours, taking the total to 8.62 lakh. The state's death toll remained at 10,128 with no new deaths reported.

Winter tourism activities in Ladakh, including Chadar trek and snow leopard sighting expedition, suspended in wake of surge in Covid-19 cases in union territory: Officials

Coronavirus in Andhra Pradesh: 60 people tested positive for Covid-19 in the tests conducted at Visakhapatnam steel plant hospital. About half of these 60 people are steel plant employees.

Coronavirus in Maharashtra: Pune reports 4,029 fresh Covid cases today, taking active cases in the city to 14,890.

Coronavirus in Karnataka: Karnataka reports 12,000 fresh Covid cases (9,020 in Bengaluru) in 24 hours: State Health Minister Dr Sudhakar K

Positivity rate is at 6.33%. There are 49,602 active cases in the state.

Delhi Latest News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi chairs a meeting to review the COVID-19 situation in the country, through video conference

Omicron in Himachal Pradesh: Himachal Pradesh Govt imposes more restrictions; all govt offices to remain closed on weekends, to work on weekdays at 50% staff presence

All social/religious gatherings to be banned. DMs allowed to decide timing of shops/markets

Order to remain in effect till Jan 24

Coronavirus in Andhra Pradesh: Andhra Pradesh reported 1257 fresh cases taking the total tally to 20,81,859 cases across the state. While coming to fatalities, two deaths reported on Sunday with one each in Visakhapatnam and Nellore taking the toll toll to 14,506. 

Delhi weekend curfew: Delhi Police says it registered 384 FIRs under Section 188 of IPC and issued 1,484 challans for violation of COVID norms during the weekend curfew on Saturday