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The government has asked to earmark different categories of beds in private hospitals and to ensure that charges levied by them is reasonable. The states have been asked to upgrade the beds to oxygen-supported beds wherever possible at Covid Care Centres and to train community volunteers in basic care and management there.

All states and Union Territories are advised to keep a daily watch on the situation of the total number of active cases, cases under home isolation, the number of hospitalized cases, cases on oxygen beds, ICU beds and on ventilatory support, he wrote.

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The Odisha government has placed an order to procure five lakh Omicron testing kits, OmiSure, informed Girish Krishnamurthy, CEO and Managing Director of Tata Medical and Diagnostics Ltd. (TATA MD) on Monday.

Recently several Union Ministers tested positive for Covid. These include Mahendra Nath Pandey, Raosaheb Patil Danve, Bharti Pawar, Nityanand Rai, and S.P. Singh Baghel.

The civic body announced the penalty in the backdrop of the city witnessing a sudden surge in Covid cases recently with 574 positive cases having been recorded on Sunday.

First detected in South Africa and Botswana in late November 2021, Omicron has been discovered in more than 100 countries and across all seven continents, as per the open access data sharing platform GISAID.

With the fresh cases, the total number of Omicron infection has reached 103 in the State.

Following the detection of new cases, the Rayagada district administration has declared the college's Hostel A and B as micro containment zones and sealed the premises.

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"Under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi ji, the government is committed to provide additional security cover to healthcare and frontline workers on priority."

As many 5,25,35,282 vaccine doses have been administered to the people of the State so far. While 91.6 percent have received the first dose and 68 per cent have received both doses, further informed Panigrahi.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has not commented on this development yet.

Of the total 4,033 cases of Omicron variant, 1,552 have recovered or migrated.

Over 400 Parliament staffers tested positive for Covid-19 during random testing. Of these, 65 are from the Rajya Sabha, 200 from the Lok Sabha and 133 belong to the allied services.