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Coronavirus LIVE Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said India will fight the Covid19 pandemic with full caution and vigilance, and protect its national interests. He also lauded the India’s achievement in providing over 145 crore doses of Covid vaccine. The Prime Minister said coronavirus posed several challenges, but “Corona cannot stop India’s pace”.
He stressed that India will fight the Covid-19 pandemic with “full caution and vigilance” and will also protect its national interests. Modi said that during the pandemic, additional food grains for free was provided to over 80 crore beneficiaries, which cost about Rs 2.6 lakh crore to the central exchequer.
As many as 10 ministers and over 20 MLAs have tested positive for COVID-19 in Maharashtra, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar revealed on Saturday, as the state continues to see a sharp rise in virus cases since December 27.
Launching the registration process for vaccination of children within the 15-18 age bracket on Co-WIN app, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said, “if the children are safe, then the future of the country is safe!”
In his tweet, Mandaviya wrote, “If the children are safe, then the future of the country is safe! On the occasion of New Year, registration is being started on COWIN portal for immunization of children #COVID19 in the age group of 15 to 18 years from today. I request the family members to register the eligible children for vaccination.”
Israel recorded the first case of “florona” disease, a double infection of COVID-19 and influenza, said Arab News said on Friday. The infection was found in a woman who entered the Rabin Medical Center this week to give birth, an Israeli newspaper reported.
Meanwhile, Israel on Friday began delivering a fourth vaccine dose for people most vulnerable to coronavirus, becoming one of the first countries to do so as it prepares for a wave of infections driven by the omicron variant. Israel, which led a world-beating vaccination program in 2020, will administer a fourth dose of the vaccine to individuals with weakened immune systems along with elderly residents and employees in care homes. The rollout of the fourth dose began at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center Friday morning and was administered to heart and lung transplant patients.
The Omicron coronavirus variant dampened New Year festivities around much of the world, as cities from Paris to Kuala Lumpur cancelled civic celebrations, but London threw a lastminute party on television and Cape Town suddenly lifted a longstanding curfew.
The midnight hour passed in Paris without a planned fireworks display or DJ sets, as city officials cancelled events planned on the Champs-Elysees following the advice of a scientific panel that declared mass gatherings would be too risky.
Elsewhere around the globe, events were scaled back or cancelled outright, as with the traditional fireworks over the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. In the Netherlands, where outside groupings of more than four people are banned, police dispersed several thousand people who had defiantly gathered at Amsterdam’s central Dam Square, ANP news agency reported.
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