Covid-19, Omicron Cases In India Live Updates: Telangana reports five more Omicron cases

Covid-related restrictions can't be imposed everywhere because it may affect economy as it has in last two years: CM Mamata Banerjee

There will not be any lockdown in West Bengal. There can be containment zones after review of the situation: Mamata Banerjee

Mumbai reports highest no. of cases, Delhi second

Maharashtra has reported 263 Omicron cases, the most number of the cases of the variant in India. Delhi follows with a tally of 252.

Delhi health minister Satyendra Jain has said that Omicron infections account for 46% of the total Covid cases in Delhi.

Maharashtra News: Mumbai's 'Bandra Reclamation- Bandra Wonderland' closed for visitors from today till January 2, due to rising COVID19 cases in the city

Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray to chair a meeting of the COVID19 Task Force today. The meeting will be held in virtual format.

Covid-19 Cases in Telangana: 38 students in Sri Chaitanya Junior College tested positive

Telangana: 38 students in Sri Chaitanya Junior College tested Covid-19 positive in Narsingi, Ranga Reddy district. According to various media reports, the district medical authorities said 20 students tested positive on Tuesday and 18 on Wednesday after conducting a Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT) for Covid-19. Most of the students who had tested positive were living in hostels.

A total of 70 Omicron patients have been admitted to LNJP till Dec 30, out of which 50 patients have been discharged. Most of the patients are asymptomatic; only 4 out of the 70 patients had a mild fever, throat infection, weakness, loose motion: Dr Suresh Kumar, LNJP-MD, Delhi

Omicron Will Soon Replace Delta as Dominant Global Variant: Experts

Experts in Singapore, where 170 new Omicron cases were reported on Wednesday, have warned that the new and supposedly more contagious variant is likely to replace Delta over the coming weeks to months. While Delta is still the most common variant in all continents except Africa, Omicron is spreading very quickly, said Dr Sebastian MaurerStroh, executive director of the stateowned Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s Bioinformatics Institute here.

Delhi temples closed for devotees as 'Yellow' alert sounded in the national capital due to rising COVID19 cases

923 new cases were reported in the city yesterday.