Omicron Live Update: Revised Guidance Center Thursday for International arrivals, eliminates the demarcation of ‘risky’ countries, which are determined during the Omicron variant onset, and recommends self-monitoring for 14 days that are contrary to 7- home quarantine rules. New guidelines will begin to apply from February 14, the UNI Ministry of Health said. The center on Thursday said Rs 6.15 Crore was approved as a financial assistance for the family of 123 journalists who died of Covid-19 pandemics.
Replying to additional questions in Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting L Murugan also said the responsibility of the state government to take appropriate action against online abuse of female journalists.
India recorded 67,084 new Koronavirus infections, taking the total number of Covid-19 countries to 4,24,78,060, while active cases fell to 7.90,789, according to the UNI Ministry of Health data updated on Thursday. The death toll rises to 5.06,520 with 1,241 fresh fatality, data is updated at 8 am. The active case consists of 1.86 percent of the total infection, while the national Covid-19 recovery rate has increased to 96.95 percent, the ministry said. Reduction of 1,02,039 cases have been recorded in the Covid-19 Kaseload active in the 24-hour range.
Covid-19 Tally West Bengal rose to 20.08.133 on Wednesday after 884 new infections, 148 more than the previous day, registered, the health department said in the bulletin. It was said that 28 new fatality was reported in the last 24 hours, encouraging the death toll to 20,912. On Tuesday, the state has recorded 736 new cases and 32 deaths again. The level of participants, which 1.87 percent on Tuesday increased slightly to 1.89 percent.
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has said that he was “very sorry and anxious” about a long wait for the population to be tested or entered isolation facility after recording a number of cases of coronavirus just scrambling. Covid-19 Hong Kong infection has almost doubled the 1,161 case record on Wednesday because the global financial hub attacks a rapid surge that can lead to the biggest test but the policy of “dynamic zero”.
Anthony Fauci, the Head of the US Medical Chief, said on Wednesday that “maybe” that the fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine would be recommended to protect from the Omicron variant – although more research is needed about how well the reinforcement is now preventing severe illness. “Before we start talking about the fourth shot, it would be very important for us to determine the protection resistance, especially against severe illness for the third shot amplifier from MRNA [vaccine] and the second shot [Johnson & Johnson)],” Fauci said in the building duty building White Covid-19 Unit Press.
Fourteen more people died of Covid-19 in Punjab on Wednesday while 676 new cases took the calculation of state infections to 7,53,789, according to a medical bulletin. So far, 17,524 people have died of infections in the state. Death was reported from several districts, including Barnala, Ferozepur, Hoshiarpur and Jalandhar. The number of active cases reaches 6,616.