COVID-19 News Updates

Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) today declared five more places as ‘Containment Zones’ following detection of new Covid-19 cases.

A recent study by IIT Kanpur suggests that the peak of the third wave would be reached anytime between the first and second week of February this year. It has also been established unequivocally that the Omicron variant breaches through the defences of people who have already taken two doses of the vaccine.

It has been observed that there has been a considerable decline in COVID-19 testing in these states and union territories amid rising cases and positivity, which is a cause of concern, Ahuja said.

The CDMO said a health team has been sent to the woman’s house for contract tracing and will collect the swab samples of the family members. 

Health Director Bijay Mohapatra today said that the State is likely to see a spurt in the Covid-19 growth rate within some days

Fauci said the increased transmissibility of Omicron "might be overridden by the sheer volume of the number of cases that may be of reduced severity but could still stress our hospital system".

Today, Odisha logged 1,897 new Covid-19 cases. Khordha district, which includes Bhubaneswar, alone added 669 infections in the last 24 hours, according to the Information and Public Relations (I&PR) department.

The country reported 90,928 fresh coronavirus infections, the highest in over 200 days, that pushed its caseload to 3,51,09,286, the data stated.

“The access to the school and hostel has been closed. Arrangements will be done for testing all the staff and students of the school and they will be vaccinated on a priority basis,” informed Nikhil Pawan Kalyan, Sundargarh District Collector.

Odisha had last crossed the 1000-mark in a single day with 1,041 cases on August 18, 2021, as per the data revealed by the State Information and Public Relations Department (I&PR).

The second worst hit country in terms of cases is India (35,018,358 infections and 482,551 deaths), followed by Brazil (22,328,252 infections and 619,654 deaths).

According to a notification issued by the BMC, Block-II, Qtr No-12  of XIMB in ward number-16 has been declared containment zone.

The 73-year-old man, who was found infected with Omicron in genome sequencing and who had tested negative for the infection twice, died in a Udaipur hospital on December 31, Rajasthan government officials had said.

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