Omicron Coronavirus Cases News Highlights 13 December 2021: 2 more Omicron cases in Maha; India tally 40

Coronavirus Live Updates: 178 new COVID-19 cases in Odisha

Odisha logged 178 more coronavirus cases on Monday, taking the tally to 10,51,752, while the two more fatalities pushed the death toll to 8,436, a Health Department bulletin said. Twelve out of 30 districts in the state did not report any new cases in the last 24 hours and 37 children were among those infected, it said. A patient each died in Khurda and Bargarh district. Fifty-three other COVID-19 patients have died due to comorbidities so far, according to official data. The state now has 1,898 active COVID-19 cases, while 10,41,365 people have recovered from the contagion, including 233 on Sunday, the bulletin said. Khurda district, of which the state capital Bhubaneswar is a part, reported the highest number of 85 cases, followed by 15 in Sambalpur. As many as 55,574 samples were tested on Sunday and the test positivity rate is 0.32 per cent, it said. (PTI)

Coronavirus in India Live Updates: Actors Kareena Kapoor Khan & Amrita Arora test positive for COVID19

Actors Kareena Kapoor Khan & Amrita Arora tested positive for #COVID19. Both of them had violated COVID norms & attended several parties. BMC has ordered people, who came in contact with the two actors, to undergo RT-PCR test: BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation)

Norway to tighten Covid-19 restrictions, PM says

Norway will further tighten restrictions this week in order to limit the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere. "The situation is serious. The spread of infection is too high and we have to take action to limit this development," he said.

I think the idea that this is somehow a milder version of the virus - I think that's something we need to set on one side - and just recognise the sheer pace at which it accelerates through the population: UK PM

"Sadly, at least one patient has been confirmed to have died with Omicron," Johnson, who on Sunday warned of a "tidal wave" of infection from the mutation, told reporters

The government wants to offer all adults a booster by New Year, an ambitious target given the Christmas holiday and that vaccinating 1 million people per day is around double the current 530,000 per day

Two doses are not enough, but three doses still provide excellent protection against symptomatic infection: UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday the first patient had died after contracting the Omicron variant of the coronavirus (Reuters)

Health Secretary Sajid Javid said although there had been no deaths confirmed in England and just 10 people hospitalised with the Omicron variant, its swift spread meant that unless the government acted the health service could be overwhelmed

Fist UK patient dies from Omicron variant, possibly world's first