Breaking News HIGHLIGHTS: Karnataka Imposes Night Curfew From Dec 28 Till Jan 7 In View Of Omicron
Breaking News HIGHLIGHTS, December 27, 2021: This LIVE Blog brings to you the latest breaking news of upcoming polls, details on Covid variant Omicron & other news around.
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Breaking News HIGHLIGHTS, December 27, 2021: This LIVE Blog brings to you the latest breaking news of upcoming polls, details on Covid variant Omicron & other news around.
The number of coronavirus positive cases at the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district has gone up to 51, which includes 48 students, a health official said on Sunday.
Their samples are being sent for genome sequencing to know whether they are carrying the Omicron variant of coronavirus, another official said.
A few days back, 19 students from the residential school in Parner tehsil had tested positive for the viral infection. The school has over 400 students across classes 5 to 12.
All the students and staff members were subjected to RT-PCR tests, Parner taluka health officer Dr Prakash Lalge told PTI.
"So far, 51 people, including 48 students and three staff members, from the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya have tested positive for coronavirus. All of them have been isolated and hospitalised. Most of the students are asymptomatic and their health is stable," the official said.
Ahmednagar district collector Rajendra Bhosale said the school campus has been declared a 'containment zone'.
With 19 more people testing positive for the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Kerala, the total number of infections by the new variant in the state reached 57, the Health Department said on Sunday.
Of the 19 cases, 11 were detected in Ernakulam, six in Thiruvananthapuram and one each in Thrissur and Kannur.
Of the 19, four each had come from the UK and UAE, two each from Qatar and Ireland and one each from Spain, Canada, Netherlands and Ghana, a Health Department release said.
The remaining three got infected via contact.
The department advised everyone to be extra vigilant in view of the rise in Omicron cases in the State.
Union Minister Hardeep Puri addressing first-ever ‘Real Estate Summit 2021’ in Jammu
The Minister made the statement while addressing the first-ever ‘Real Estate Summit- 2021’ at Convention Centre, Jammu. The summit was organized by the J&K administration in collaboration with the union ministry of housing and urban affairs. pic.twitter.com/KnAW12VZBO
— ANI (@ANI) December 27, 2021
Union Health Secy to conduct meeting with states on vaccination of children & precaution dose
Union Health Secy Rajesh Bhushan to conduct meeting with States/UTs chief secretaries and medical officers on vaccination of 15-18-year olds & precaution dose to health care, frontline workers and for seniors above 60 with comorbidities, ANI reported official sources as saying.
The meeting will be held at 11:30 am tomorrow, they informed
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