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Updated January 29th, 2022 at 22:03 IST

Coronavirus in India Updates: Karnataka reports 33,337 new COVID cases in 24 hours

After conducting a review meeting on Friday, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya is all set to hold another significant conference over COVID-19. The Union Health Minister will be conducting a similar meeting with the officials of 5 other states where he will be reviewing the COVID-19 spread in various states in different phases, Saturday’s meeting will be the third such review meeting.

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10: 03 IST, January 29th 2022

West Bengal has reported 3,512 COVID cases with 11,288 recoveries and 35 deaths in the last 24 hours.

 

10: 00 IST, January 29th 2022

Former Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma has tested positive for COVID-19. 

 

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9: 11 IST, January 29th 2022

 

Gujarat has reported 11,794 fresh COVID cases with 21,655 recoveries, and 33 deaths in the last 24 hours.

 

9: 11 IST, January 29th 2022

J&K has reported 4,175 fresh COVID cases with 7,107 recoveries and five deaths in the last 24 hours.

 

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8: 13 IST, January 29th 2022

Karnataka has reported 33,337 fresh COVID cases with 69,902 recoveries and 70 deaths in the last 24 hours.

 

7: 35 IST, January 29th 2022

Tamil Nadu has reported 24,418 fresh COVID cases with 27,885 recoveries, and 46 deaths in the last 24 hours.

 

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7: 35 IST, January 29th 2022

Mumbai has reported 1,411 new COVID cases in the last 24 hours.

 

7: 19 IST, January 29th 2022

Union Health Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya held a virtual meeting with eastern states on the COVID-19 situation.

 

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7: 11 IST, January 29th 2022

In view of the declining cases of COVID-19, the Telangana government has announced that all educational institutions in the state will reopen on February 1, 2022. Telangana Education Minister P Sabitha Indra Reddy said that COVID guidelines should be strictly enforced in educational institutions. School owners advised teachers and parents of students to take appropriate precautions. The state government would release detailed guidelines regarding the reopening of the schools in the evening. Earlier, the state government had ordered all educational institutions to remain closed till January 30, due to the surge in COVID-19 cases. Meanwhile, several other states have announced the reopening of schools and colleges on February 1, 2022.

6: 17 IST, January 29th 2022

Uttarakhand has reported 2490 new COVID cases with 2320 recoveries and 10 deaths in the last 24 hours. 

 

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6: 04 IST, January 29th 2022

Delhi has reported 4,483 new COVID cases with 8807 recoveries and 28 deaths in the last 24 hours.

 

5: 50 IST, January 29th 2022

As India continues to witness a decline in coronavirus cases after observing a massive surge amid the ongoing third COVID wave, data suggests that some cities including Delhi & Mumbai which were recording huge daily figures are out from their peaks. 

While addressing the COVID situation in Maharashtra, state health Minister Rajesh Tope said that the peak of the third COVID wave in many cities has been over and the cases have started to plateau in the state. He informed that the COVID daily infections have started declining in many cities, including the ones that were worst hit by the Omicron driven third COVID wave including Mumbai, Thane, Raigad, and Palghar.

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5: 49 IST, January 29th 2022

The World Health Organisation's (WHO) South-East Asia Regional Director Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh has warned that Indians need to be vigilant about COVID-19 as the threat has not subsided yet. India is witnessing a downfall in the daily caseload in some parts. However, the WHO official cautioned that risk from the coronavirus still persists. In the last 24 hours, India recorded over 2,35,532 cases, as per the data by the Union Health Ministry. 

4: 40 IST, January 29th 2022

In Tripura, all schools & Madrassas (pre-primary to 12th class) will be allowed to function normally with strict maintenance of amid COVID-19 from January 31, reads an official statement. 

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3: 28 IST, January 29th 2022

New research published in the journal Nature has found lung abnormalities in some patients who contracted COVID causing breathlessness. Researchers noted that the abnormalities found in the lungs of COVID patients could be the main reason behind several people experiencing problems while breathing.

The new COVID study said that the researchers studied at least 36 patients who had COVID and simultaneously developed issues in breathing, The Guardian reported, citing the research. The researchers noted that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may cause microscopic harm to the lungs and informed that the problem is not detected using routine tests.

2: 01 IST, January 29th 2022

An elderly COVID-19 patient was killed after fire broke out at the Burdwan Medical College and Hospital in West Bengal on Saturday morning, officials said.

The deceased, Sandhya Mondal (60), was admitted to a Covid ward of the hospital, where the blaze erupted around 4 am, they said.

Other patients in the ward were safe as they were moved to another wing in time, hospital sources said.

Hospital authorities doused the blaze before fire brigade personnel arrived, the sources said.

A five-member team has been constituted to investigate the cause of the fire, Hospital Superintendent Tapas Kumar Ghosh said. 

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1: 43 IST, January 29th 2022

After Chinese scientists raised serious concerns about a newly discovered coronavirus - NeoCov - the World Health Organization (WHO) said it needs extensive research to examine whether the virus poses a threat to humans. While speaking to Russian news agency TASS, on Thursday, a WHO official asserted the recently discovered coronavirus is currently transmitting from animals to animals and added the world health agency is studying whether it poses any threat to humans.

The WHO official said that the virus was recently found among bats in South Africa. As China announced the detection of the new coronavirus in bats, at a time the world continues to reel under dangers from the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, scientists from China's Wuhan said it could be a more contagious and possibly a deadlier strain of coronavirus compared to the earlier detected ones. 

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1: 14 IST, January 29th 2022

"Hon'ble Governor Shri Kalraj Mishra got his COVID test done today. COVID test has come positive. He is healthy and has no symptoms. He has appealed that all the people who came in contact with him should isolate themselves and get their COVID test done.

 

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1: 01 IST, January 29th 2022

Maharashtra on Friday recorded 24,948 new coronavirus cases including 110 Omicron infections and 103 pandemic-related deaths, the health department said.

New cases declined by 477 compared to the day before. On Thursday, the state had recorded 25,425 cases besides 42 fatalities.

The caseload on Friday rose to 76,55,554 and death toll reached 1,42,461.

The case fatality rate stood at 1.86 per cent.

As many as 45,648 patients were discharged, taking the number of recovered patients to 72,42,649.

12: 09 IST, January 29th 2022

As per the latest order issued by the Rajasthan govt, the schools will reopen for classes 10 to 12 on Feb 1, and for classes 6 to 9 on Feb 10, 2022.

 

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11: 22 IST, January 29th 2022

According to a report by BBC, the serial number on Djokovic's COVID test on December 16 appears out of sequence with a sample of tests from Serbia over this period. The report states that Novak Djokovic's lawyers submitted the document to federal court in Australia that included two COVID (PCR) test certificates, one with a positive result on December 16 and one with a negative result on December 22. 

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10: 54 IST, January 29th 2022

"We'd closed anganawadis in 2nd wave. After that we followed govt's 50% strength guideline to open institutions. Now, we're completely open. Children across dist are healthy,"says Dy Director, women & child development Dept

 

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10: 36 IST, January 29th 2022

"Schools & colleges will reopen in Pune district from Feb 1. For classes 1 to 8, the school timings will be half of the regular timings, but for classes 9 to 10, the school will run as per the regular schedule. Colleges will also function as per regular time," added Maharashtra Deputy CM:

 

10: 03 IST, January 29th 2022

Thane district of Maharashtra reported 1,079 new coronavirus positive cases, which took its infection count to 6,99,961, while the death of eight patients pushed to toll to 11,759, an official said on Saturday.

These cases and fatalities were reported on Friday, he said.

Thane's COVID-19 mortality rate is 1.67 per cent.

In neighbouring Palghar district, the caseload stood at 1,61,552 and the death toll at 3,369, another official said.

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9: 45 IST, January 29th 2022

The seven-day rolling average for daily new COVID-19 deaths in the US has been climbing since mid-November:

 

9: 18 IST, January 29th 2022

India reports 2,35,532 new #COVID19 cases, 871 deaths and 3,35,939 recoveries in the last 24 hours Active case: 20,04,333 (4.91%) Daily positivity rate: 13.39% Total Vaccination : 1,65,04,87,260

 

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8: 54 IST, January 29th 2022

Barricading & checking underway by the Delhi Police, as night curfew continues in the national capital amid #COVID19 crisis. Visuals from Minto Road:

 

8: 34 IST, January 29th 2022

Thailand’s Public Health Ministry plans to declare COVID-19 an ‘endemic’ by the end of this year 2022, relative to its own data, analysis, and the criteria —whether or not the World Health Organization (WHO) approves, Bangkok Post reported on Friday. Officials held a meeting of the ministry's National Communicable Disease Committee and decided to end the pandemic at their own accord using their own academically acceptable criteria before the year ends. 

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8: 08 IST, January 29th 2022

COVID-19 Active cases in Mizoram stands at 14,608:

 

7: 58 IST, January 29th 2022

Taiwan’s Sports Administration made clear Taiwan's Olympic contingent of 15 athletes will not participate in the games scheduled in China between  Feb 4 to 20:

 

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7: 15 IST, January 29th 2022

In the Genome sequencing results, it is found that 67.5% Omicron and 26% Delta cases in third wave of COVID19; 90.7% Delta cases in the second wave, stated Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar:

 

7: 15 IST, January 29th 2022

In the last 24 hours, Assam reported 2,861 new COVID-19 cases, 21 deaths, and 6,002 recoveries. Active cases 32,013:

 

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7: 15 IST, January 29th 2022

Universities, colleges, schools for classes 10th to 12th; coaching/training institutes both govt and private are allowed to open with effect from February 1:

 

7: 15 IST, January 29th 2022

West Bengal records 3,805 new #COVID19 cases, 13,767 recoveries, & 34 deaths on Friday; Active cases decreased to 45,729. Positivity rate stands at 6.15%:

 

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7: 15 IST, January 29th 2022

COVID-19 Active cases in Jharkhand are currently at 10,383:

 

Published January 29th, 2022 at 07:15 IST

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