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Coronavirus Omicron in India News Highlights 8 January 2022: Telangana reports 2606 new coronavirus cases
Coronavirus Omicron Updates today News on 8 January 2022: Latest news updates of happenings from around the world, with special focus on India, Hyderabad, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh. From daily coronavirus news about the probable third wave, the number of infections, vaccination and night curfew.
Coronavirus in India: India reported 1,41,986 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the daily positivity rate in the country to 9.28 per cent, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Saturday. With this, the country's COVID-19 case tally has gone up to 3,53,68,372. According to Health Ministry, the country has so far reported 3,071 cases of Omicron of which 1,203 have been recovered.
Coronavirus in Andhra Pradesh: Andhra Pradesh's COVID-19 count rose to 20,80,602 with another 839 fresh cases added on Saturday.
According to the latest bulletin, 150 infected persons got cured in the 24 hours ending 9 am today, making it a total of 20,62,440 recoveries.
Two more deaths took the death toll to 14,503.
The active caseload increased to 3,659, the bulletin added.
Chittoor district registered the highest number of 175 fresh cases, followed by Visakhapatnam with 174.
Krishna added 79, East Godavari 78, Guntur 67, SPS Nellore 61, while the remaining seven districts logged less than 50 new cases each.
Consequently, the active cases shot up to 771 in Visakhapatnam, the highest now in the state, followed by Chittoor 659 and Krishna 476.
Kurnool district, which saw the active coronavirus cases fall to the lowest of three, now has 69.
Srikakulam and West Godavari districts recorded one fresh fatality each in a day.
Coronavirus in Telangana: Telangana recorded 2,606 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Saturday. Out of the total 73,156 samples tested today, 3.5% tested positive.
Meanwhile 285 people recovered from the infection and 2 died due to the infection on Saturday.
GHMC contributed around 60% of the positive cases i.e; 1,583 cases.
Covid cases in Medchal Malkajgiri and Rangareddy districts are also found to be increasing.
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- 8 Jan 2022 6:38 PM IST
68 employees at CBI's Mumbai office have tested positive for COVID-19, says official (PTI)
- 8 Jan 2022 6:37 PM IST
Coronavirus in Karnataka: Cases increase marginally in Karnataka today
◾New cases in State:8,906
◾New cases in B'lore: 7,113
◾Positivity rate in State: 5.42%
◾Discharges: 508
◾Active cases State: 38,507 (B'lore- 32k)
◾Deaths:04 (B'lore- 03)
◾Tests: 1,64,261
- 8 Jan 2022 6:34 PM IST
Coronavirus in Bengaluru: Test positivity rate crosses 10% in Bengaluru with the city recording 7,113 cases today. Bengaluru continues to be the epicenter of COVID in Karnataka with 79% of the cases: Karnataka Health Minister Dr Sudhakar K
- 8 Jan 2022 6:32 PM IST
Mumbai's Dharavi reports 147 new COVID cases in the last 24 hours, taking active cases in the area to 729
- 8 Jan 2022 6:31 PM IST
Bharat Biotech says its trial of Covaxin booster jabs has demonstrated "long-term safety with no serious adverse events"
"90% of recipients had a detectable neutralizing antibody response against the wild-type strain (6 months after the second dose)," the Covaxin maker says
- 8 Jan 2022 3:09 PM IST
Romania tightens pandemic measures amid Covid-19 surge
Tighter pandemic measures came into force in Romania on Saturday as authorities hoped to quell sharply rising coronavirus cases amid concerns that the next virus wave could overstretch the country's health care system. (AP)
- 8 Jan 2022 2:41 PM IST
Tamil Nadu Lockdown: Tamil Nadu government announces complete lockdown on Sunday as a precautionary measure for Covid-19.
- 8 Jan 2022 1:14 PM IST
Actress Trisha tests positive for Covid
Actress Trisha, one of the top actresses in the Tamil and Telugu film industries, has announced that she has tested positive for Covid-19. Read Full Story
- 8 Jan 2022 1:12 PM IST
Jammu & Kashmir News: COVID19 testing continues at the Jammu Airport
"Travellers are allowed to leave the airport only if they're fully vaccinated, otherwise, everyone, including the Vaishno Devi yaatris, gets tested," says Sanjeev Kumar Garg, Jammu Airport Director
- 8 Jan 2022 12:33 PM IST
Mumbai News: 2500 beds are available at the BKC Jumbo COVID19 Centre. So far, there are no ICU patients at the centre. Most patients are asymptomatic. Weekend lockdown will not be imposed for now: Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar
