Omicron Updates: 87 doctors test COVID positive at Patna hospital
With the rise in COVID-19 cases across the country, several states have already announced restrictions and night curfew to curb the spread of the infection. Meanwhile, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had on Sunday said there is no need to panic as only mild symptoms are being reported in Omicron patients.
The deadly second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc across the country, snuffing out many lives, burdening hospitals and doctors beyond their capacities, even as the vaccination exercise injected some degree of confidence in a bid to bring life back on track. However, just when the country may have thought that they had put their worst behind them, fear of an imminent third wave now looms large with a surge in new infections of Covid, and cases of the new Omicron variant of the virus, which is highly transmissible, might derail the recovery made in the last few months. Maharashtra has recorded the maximum number of Omicron cases followed by Delhi, Kerala and Gujarat. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had on December 28 declared ‘yellow alert’ under which schools, colleges, cinemas and gyms shall be closed, shops dealing in non-essential items will open on an odd-even basis, and metro trains and buses will run with 50 per cent of seating capacity in the city.
87 doctors test COVID positive at Patna hospital
87 doctors at Bihar’s Nalanda Medical College and Hospital have tested positive for COVID-19. All of them are either asymptomatic or have mild symptoms and are in isolation on the hospital campus.
Delhi wine shop sealed for flouting COVID norms
A wine shop was sealed by the district administration in Delhi’s Malviya Nagar on Sunday for flouting COVID norms.
A complaint regarding the shop not following the COVID appropriate behavior (CAB) was received on Twitter, following which the shop was sealed by Hauz Khas Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM).
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