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Coronavirus LIVE: Assam Logs Biggest Single-Day Spike Of 8,339 New Cases, 15 More Deaths Reported Assam on Wednesday reported the highest single-day spike in COVID-19 cases for the third day in a row, with 8,339 people testing positive for the disease, Health Minister Keshab Mahanta said, news agency PTI reported.
The tally in the northeastern state climbed to 6,70,128 with the detection of the fresh cases, according to official data.
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Coronavirus LIVE: Two Members Of Indian Women's Football Team At AFC Asian Cup Test Positive
COVID-19 breached the Indian women's football team's bio-security bubble here on Wednesday ahead of the AFC Asian Cup with two players testing positive for the virus, forcing the organisers to shift them to a medical facility for isolation, news agency PTI reported.
"Two members of the Indian Women's Senior National Team for the AFC Women's Asian Cup India 2022 have tested positive for COVID-19, and are currently in isolation at a designated medical care facility," the All India Football Federation (AIFF) tweeted.
"The AIFF prioritises the health and safety of its players, and are following all," the organising federation wrote in another tweet.
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Coronavirus LIVE: 84 IAS Trainees At LBSNAA, Mussoorie Test Positive For COVID-19 Eighty-four IAS trainees at Mussoorie's Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration have tested positive for Covid-19, PTI reported. Those infected have been isolated and the rest quarantined at the academy, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Manoj Upreti said. Meanwhile, 25 personnel at the state police headquarters here have also tested positive for the infection.
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Coronavirus LIVE: Odisha Starts Trial Run Of 'OmiSure' Kits For Detection Of Omicron Variant The Odisha government has received 30,000 'OmiSure' RT-PCR test kits for early detection of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, a senior health department official said.
Odisha's Director of Health Services Bijay Mohapatra said: "The trial run of the Omisure kits was in progress. It will be first used for internal study and the kits will then be dispatched to districts reporting a higher number of cases," he said.
Official sources said the state has received 30,000 'OmiSure' kits in the first phase-out of its order of 5 lakh such kits. He said the kits will first be used in four cities - Berhampur, Cuttack, Rourkela, and Bhubaneswar.
Odisha was the first state in the country to place an order for 'Omisure' kits after Tata Medical and Diagnostics Ltd (TATA MD) in partnership with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) developed it, the official said.
The 'OmiSure' kits can detect the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV2 in nasopharyngeal/oropharyngeal specimens during the RT-PCR tests.
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Coronavirus LIVE: Fresh Covid Cases Decreasing And Overall Situation Under Control, Says Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope In Maharashtra, the number of daily new covid-19 cases is decreasing and the overall situation is under control. Health Minister Rajesh Tope said, hospitalisations are less in number and we are using our full potential to increase testing and vaccination coverage in the state.
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Coronavirus LIVE: SC Summons Chief Secretaries Of Andhra, Bihar For Non-Payment Of Ex Gratia COVID-19 Compensation Supreme Court summons Chief Secretaries of Andhra Pradesh and Bihar for non-payment of ex gratia compensation to the kin of the victims of COVID-19 despite the earlier orders of the court. Court asks them to be present before it through a virtual hearing at 2 pm today.
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Coronavirus LIVE: 350 Fresh COVID-19 Cases In Arunachal Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh's COVID-19 tally rose to 57,387 as 350 more people tested positive for the infection on Wednesday, 54 less than the previous day, a senior health official said. The northeastern state on Tuesday had reported 404 new COVID-19 cases, the highest single-day spike this month.
Of the 350 fresh cases, 115 were registered in the Capital Complex Region, 40 from West Kameng, Namsai (37), Papumpare (30), Changlang (27), East Siang and Lohit with 18 cases each and Lower Dibang Valley reported 17 cases, the official said.
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Coronavirus LIVE: India Reports 2.8L Fresh Covid-19 Cases, Omicron Cases Witness Marginal Rise India reports 2,82,970 fresh Covid-19 cases which are 44,889 more than yesterday. 441 deaths and 1,88,157 recoveries have been recorded in the last 24 hours.
In total, 8,961 total omicron cases have been detected so far in India. There is only a 0.79% increase in omicron cases since yesterday.
The active case tally stands at 18,31,000 while the daily covid-19 positivity rate is at 15.13%.
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Coronavirus LIVE: Police Personnel Test Positive In Maharashtra | Latest Update In Maharashtra, Mumbai Police informed 28 of its personnel tested positive for covid-19 in the last 24 hours. This takes the number of active cases in Mumbai Police to 1,273. While Pune Police said, 21 personnel tested positive for coronavirus yesterday. The number of infected police personnel in Pune city rises to 504.
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Coronavirus LIVE: Asymptomatic Animal Handlers Transmit Delta Variant To Lions At Zoo In South Africa Asymptomatic animal handlers at a private zoo in South Africa transmitted the Delta variant of COVID-19 to captive lions, who were placed in quarantine and developed symptoms like breathing problems, runny nose, and dry cough, according to a recent study by a team of scientists from the University of Pretoria.
The research report, published recently in the journal Viruses', also urged members of the public to be aware of the possibility of infecting their pet cats and dogs if they have COVID-19.
The team was led by Professor Marietjie Venter, Head of the Zoonotic, Arbo-and Respiratory Virus Programme at the university's Department of Medical Virology; and Professor Katja Koeppel, Associate Professor of Wildlife Health at the Faculty of Veterinary Science. They conducted a study on three sick lions at the zoo during South Africa's third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic late in 2021.
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Coronavirus LIVE: Over 50% Children In 15-18 Age Group Given First Dose Of Vaccine "Over 50% of youngsters between 15-18 age group have received their 1st dose of COVID-19 vaccine," said Union Health Minister on Tuesday.