Coronavirus HIGHLIGHTS: Maharashtra Reports 44,388 New Cases, 207 Patients Infected With Omicron
Coronavirus HIGHLIGHTS: With Covid-19 cases on a rise, this blog brings to you accurate information about the actual spread of disease in parts of the country.
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Coronavirus HIGHLIGHTS, January 9, 2021: Maharashtra on Saturday reported 133 new infections of the Omicron variant of coronavirus which took the total of such cases in the state to 1,009, health officials said.
As many as 439 patients have been discharged after recovery in the state to date. Of 133 new cases, reports of 130 infections were received from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, while three reports were received from labs in Gujarat, officials said.
Of new cases of the Omicron variant, 118 were reported from Pune city, eight from neighbouring Pimpri-Chinchwad, three from Pune rural, two from Vasai-Virar and one each from Ahmednagar and Mumbai.
Mumbai has reported the highest 566 Omicron cases in the state so far, followed by 201 in Pune city.
Bihar reported 4526 fresh coronavirus cases on Saturday, 1478 more than the previous day, pushing the number of active cases to 12,311 and the tally to 7,40,377, the state health department said.
With the surge, the RJD, which is the main opposition party in Bihar on Saturday closed its office in the state capital for an indefinite period.
A bulletin by the state health department said no fresh death due to the disease was reported in the last 24 hours and the cumulative toll in the infection stood at 12,100.
A total 71,5966 people have recovered from the disease so far, including 704 in the last 24 hours.
Five districts of the state accounted for the majority of the new cases, the bulletin said.
Patna alone registered 1,956 fresh cases on Saturday. On Thursday and Friday, the city had registered 1,407 and 1314 cases respectively. The number of active cases now stands at 7072 in Patna, the bulletin said.
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Kolkata, Jan 9 (PTI) West Bengal on Sunday reported an all-time high of 24,287 fresh cases of Covid-19 on Sunday, the highest since the first wave of infections in 2020.
The infections detected in the last 24 hours, were 5,485 more than yesterday's, taking the tally to 17,55,046, the health department said. Kolkata city accounted for more than a third of Bengal's Covid infections for the day with a tally of 8,712 cases, compared to 7,337 cases on Saturday. While neighbouring North 24 Parganas with several of Kolkata's sattelite towns including Salt Lake and its infotech and commercial hub accounting for 5,053 cases against the previous day's 3,286 cases.
Other districts reporting large number of infections during the day included the industrial districts of Howrah (1,742) and Hooghly (1,276), near Kolkata.
There were 18 Covid-19 related deaths registered here which pushed the toll to 19,901, it added. Since Saturday, 8,213 recoveries were reported in Bengal, though the discharge rate further slipped to 94.42 per cent. The number of active cases, however, increased by another 16,056 to 78,111.
In the last 24 hours, 71,664 samples have been tested in Bengal taking the total number of such clinical examinations to 2,18,74,205, the bulletin stated.
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Maharashtra Reports 44,388 New COVID Cases, 207 Patients Found To Be Infected With Omicron
Maharashtra reports 44,388 new COVID cases, 15,351 recoveries, and 12 deaths today
— ANI (@ANI) January 9, 2022
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Death toll: 1,41,639
Omicron cases in the state: 1216 pic.twitter.com/63KDaWGVIF
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Delhi logs 22,751 fresh COVID cases, 10,179 recoveries, and 17 deaths today
— ANI (@ANI) January 9, 2022
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