Odisha News
➡️ Bhubaneswar reports 400 more COVID positive cases & 93 recoveries in the last 24 hours including 362 local contact cases and 38 quarantine cases.
➡️ 121 Covid-19 patients have recovered from the disease in Odisha in the last 24 hours. The total recovered cases of Odisha now stand at 1045376.
➡️ Odisha reports first death due to Omicron variant of Covid-19. The 45-year-old deceased woman was from Balangir district and undergoing treatment at VIMSAR.
➡️ RTPCR COVID testing mandatory for passengers at Biju Patnaik International Airport, Bhubaneswar.
➡️ Cuttack residents to get drinking water 24×7 as Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launches Drink from Tap Mission ‘SUJAL’. Built at a cost of Rs 790 crore, it will benefit more than 7 lakh people in the city.
➡️ Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) today declared five places as containment zones.
India News
➡️ Supreme Court to hear all matters in virtual mode only and all judges to work from their residential offices from January 7.
➡️ Centre writes to states to ensure setting up of district, sub-district control rooms for COVID management with adequate staff, doctors and beds.
➡️ 15,097 new Covid cases in Delhi today, 41% increase from Yesterday.
➡️ Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot tests positive for COVID-19.
➡️ 6 dead, 20 hospitalised after toxic gas leak from Surat factory.
➡️ Main conspirator of ‘Bulli Bai’ app, a 2nd-year engineering student, held in Assam.
➡️ Union Cabinet approves Rs 12,000 cr phase-II of Green Energy Corridor.
➡️ Rupee falls 11 paise to close at 74.49 (provisional) against US dollar.
➡️ Sensex tumbles 621.31 pts to end at 59,601.84; Nifty slumps 179.35 pts to 17,745.90.
World News
➡️ Two children in United States detected with ‘Flurona’.
➡️ 125 passengers of Italy-Amritsar flight test positive for Covid-19.
➡️ Lawrence Brooks, Oldest World War II veteran in US passes away at 112.
➡️ US reports 716,714 new coronavirus cases, setting world record for cases in one day.
