highlighting the role that Teleconsultation has played to serve the people Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday urged states and union territories to focus more on such services for better public health management in remote places as well as for home isolation of COVID-19 patients. told to concentrate.
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Karnataka
Karnataka government announces withdrawal of night curfew
The Karnataka government announced the withdrawal of the night curfew from January 31. All schools in Bengaluru will start offline classes from Monday.
50% occupancy rule removed in hotels, bars and pubs; To continue in theatres, multiplexes. -TH Bureau
Maharashtra
Schools, colleges in Pune to reopen from February 1
Schools and colleges in Maharashtra’s Pune will reopen for physical classes from February 1, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said on Saturday.
Speaking to reporters after attending a meeting to review the COVID-19 situation, Pawar said the school timings for classes 1 to 8 would be for half a day so that the lunch time could be reduced. can be kept outside and students can eat their meals at home. -PTI
Orissa
Odisha approves ICMR for COVID-19 rapid antigen test kit
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has validated the COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test Kit developed by a private company in Odisha.
The kit has been developed by IMGENEX India Pvt Ltd, Bhubaneswar with intellectual input from Regional Medical Research Center (RMRC). The kit can detect different types of COVID-19 using nasopharyngeal swab samples. -PTI
National
Risk remains despite rise in Covid cases in parts of India: WHO
Senior WHO official Poonam Khetrapal Singh said that even though some cities or states in India are seeing cases of COVID-19, the risk remains and situation-specific measures have to be taken to reduce transmission. The focus should be on implementation.
The Health Ministry said on Thursday that there are early signs of a plateau of Kovid cases in some geographical areas of the country, but the trend needs to be observed.
Responding to a question that the cases of coronavirus in India have started decreasing, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia Region, said that the risk of COVID-19 is high and any country, their Despite the current transmission scenario, “is not out. of the forest” yet. -PTI
West Bengal
Kovid patient dies in Bengal hospital
An elderly COVID-19 patient died after a fire broke out in West Bengal’s Burdwan Medical College and Hospital on the morning of Saturday, January 29, officials said.
He said that the deceased Sandhya Mandal (60) was admitted to a Kovid ward of the hospital, where the fire broke out at around 4 am.
Hospital sources said other patients in the ward were safe as they were shifted to the other wing in time.
Sources said that the fire was doused by the hospital authorities before the fire brigade arrived.
Hospital superintendent Tapas Kumar Ghosh said that a five-member team has been formed to investigate the cause of the fire. ,PTI
National
India reports over 2.35 lakh covid cases, 871 deaths
With 2,35,532 people testing positive for the coronavirus infection in a day, India’s total number of cases exceeded 4.08 crore, according to data updated by the Union Health Ministry on Saturday.
Data updated at 8 am shows that the death toll has risen to 4,93,198 with 871 deaths during the 24-hour period.
The ministry said active cases declined by 1,01,278 to 20,04,333 – accounting for 4.91% of the total infections, while the country’s recovery rate stood at 93.89%.
According to the health ministry, the daily positivity rate was recorded at 13.39%, while the weekly positivity rate was 16.89%.
The ministry said that the number of people recovering from the disease rose to 3,83,60,710, while the death rate was recorded at 1.21%. -PTI
Karnataka
How widespread is the delta version of SARS-CoV-2 in Karnataka now?
While the second wave of COVID-19 was largely driven by the more virulent Delta variant and its sub-lineages, with 90.7% of the total 5,659 samples testing positive for it, out of a total of 1,853 samples sequenced in the third wave in January The delta was found to be 26%, as per the data released by the state government.
International
Merck says Covid pill ‘active’ against Omicron
The US drugmaker on Friday said Merck’s anti-Covid pill remains “active” against the Omron variant, citing the results of six laboratory studies.
The oral treatment, called molnupiravir, taken within five days of symptom onset and shown in a pre-Omicron trial of 1,400 participants to reduce hospitalizations and deaths by 30 percent in those at risk went. -afp
International
US sends 7.4 million Kovid vaccine doses to Bangladesh
The United States on Friday began shipping another 7.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Bangladesh, a US official told AFP.
“Thanks to America’s commitment to playing a leading role in ending the pandemic everywhere, the United States is sending 7,434,180 doses of the Pfizer vaccine to Bangladesh,” a White House official said on condition of anonymity. -afp
Rajasthan Rajasthan
Rajasthan schools will open from February 1
Schools will open in Rajasthan for classes 10-12 from February 1 and for classes 6-9 from February 10, the government said in its new COVID guidelines on Friday.
Students will have the option of online education.
Markets, other business establishments in the state will now remain open till 10 pm, while the Janata curfew has been abolished on Sunday. -PTI
New Delhi
Delhi Metro services will resume on weekends from Saturday as per the regular timetable
Delhi Metro services will resume on weekends as per the regular timetable from Saturday in view of the easing of restrictions due to the improvement in the COVID-19 situation in the city, officials said.
Weekend curfew was imposed in Delhi from January 8, after which services were cut.
The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) on Thursday decided to lift the weekend curfew and the odd-even system of opening non-essential shops in the city, besides re-opening restaurants, bars, cinema halls and theaters with 50% capacity. was allowed to open. COVID situation improves. -PTI
Haryana
Permission to open cinema halls, theatres, multiplexes in Haryana with 50% seating capacity
The Haryana government on Friday relaxed certain COVID-related restrictions in the state, allowing all cinema halls, theaters and multiplexes to open with 50 per cent seating capacity, a government order said.
As per the order issued by the Haryana State Disaster Management Authority (HSDMA), “All cinema halls, theatres, multiplexes are permitted to open with 50 per cent seating capacity by adopting necessary social distancing norms, regular sanitisation and COVID-19 appropriate behavior norms.” Is allowed.” , -PTI
Gujarat
Night curfew extended in 27 cities of Gujarat till February 4
To curb the coronavirus pandemic, the night curfew has been extended till February 4 in 27 cities of Gujarat, an official said on Friday.
The decision to extend the date of night curfew was taken by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel during a core committee meeting in Gandhinagar, a release said, adding that though the number of new coronavirus cases in Gujarat was declining, 12,131 persons were found infected during the last were go. twenty four hours -PTI
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