Breaking News HIGHLIGHTS: WB CM Mamata Banerjee Cautions On Omicron Variant Ahead Of X-Mas Celebrations
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India's Omicron Covid count rose to 153 on Sunday after Maharashtra reported six and Gujarat logged four more cases of the new variant of coronavirus, respectively.
According to central and state officials, omicron cases have been detected in 11 states and union territories -- Maharashtra (54), Delhi (22), Rajasthan (17) and Karnataka (14), Telangana (20), Gujarat (11), Kerala (11), Andhra Pradesh (1), Chandigarh (1), Tamil Nadu (1) and West Bengal (1).
Six persons tested positive for the Omicron variant of coronavirus in Maharashtra on Sunday, raising the state's tally of such cases to 54, the health department said.
While two of these patients had a history of travel to Tanzania, two others had returned from England and one from the Middle East. All five of them are fully vaccinated.
The Centre will launch a nationwide campaign today for redressal of public grievances and improvising service delivery especially in rural areas as part of good governance week.
A series of programmes are planned by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions during the week to be observed during December 20-25.
There will be a launch of a nationwide campaign for redressal of public grievances and improvising service delivery titled prashasan gaon ki aur' on Monday besides the inauguration of an exhibition on good governance practices, said the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) under the ministry.
Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh will inaugurate the campaign on Monday.
Sonia Gandhi reconstitutes Congress Parliamentary Party, DK Suresh appointed treasurer
New Delhi (ANI): Congress president Sonia Gandhi has appointed new office-bearers in Congress Parliamentary Party with Santokh Singh Chaudhary, M K Raghavan and Amee Yajnik made secretaries. DK Suresh, party MP from Bangalore Rural, has been appointed as the treasurer. Sonia Gandhi, who is also the chairperson of the CPP, has appointed 22 executive members.
They include Deepinder Singh Hooda, Gurjeet Singh Aujla, Pradyut Bordoloi, Pratibha Singh, Karti Chidambaram, Jasbir Singh Dimpa and Nakul Nath among others. The appointments have been made with immediate effect. In the recently held meeting of Congress Parliamentary Party in the Central Hall of Parliament, a resolution was passed unanimously by the Congress MPs from Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha in which Sonia Gandhi was authorised to reconstitute the CPP committee.
COVID-positive couple in Dehradun suspected for Omicron infection
Uttarakhand: A COVID-positive couple in Dehradun is #Omicron suspected, after returning from meeting their Omicron positive relatives in Delhi with a travel history to Qatar; couple's apartment declared a micro-containment zone, genome sequencing report awaited: DM R Rajesh Kumar pic.twitter.com/ElR6JWO3cN
— ANI (@ANI) December 20, 2021
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