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Daily COVID Update: India Records 27,409 Fresh Covid Cases

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New Delhi: India’s Covid chart showed improvement today, with the country recording 27,409 cases, a drop of 19.6 percent from yesterday. About 347 deaths were recorded during the period, according to the Health Ministry.

After a month-long surge in Covid cases, led by the highly contagious Omicron variant, has been steadily declining in most Indian states.

The country’s active caseload currently stands at 4,23,127. Active cases now account for 0.99 percent of the total infections in India.

India’s daily positivity rate has dropped from 3.19 percent to 2.23 percent. The weekly positivity rate stands at 3.63%.

12,29,536 Covid tests were conducted in the last 24 hours.

Maharashtra added 1,966 fresh coronavirus positive cases, over 1,500 less than the day before, and 12 fatalities due to the viral infection. With the latest additions, the overall tally of infections rose to 78,44,915 in the state and the number of COVID-19 fatalities mounted to 1,43,416.

Around 95 percent of swab samples examined in the latest round of genome sequencing in Mumbai have been found infected with the Omicron variant, according to the city civic body.

Delhi logged 586 COVID-19 cases and four fatalities, while the positivity rate marginally declined to 1.37 percent, according to data shared by the health department on Monday. With this, the national capital’s caseload increased to 18,51,906 and the number of deaths climbed to 26,076, the latest bulletin showed.

India has administered 173.42 crore vaccine doses since starting its national vaccination drive in January 2020.

Global COVID-19 cases have surpassed 400 million as the highly contagious Omicron variant dominates the outbreak, pushing health systems in several countries to the brink of capacity.

Coronavirus has killed at least 5,816,122 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to news agency AFP. The US has recorded the most Covid deaths with 919,845, followed by Brazil with 638,362, and India with 509,358.

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Channi Alleges Being Grounded By PM’s Flight, Missed Rahul Gandhi’s Rally

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Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi alleged that he was forced to miss Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi’s rally, as he was denied permission to fly because of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit. Being furious he says that he is a minister and not a terrorist. 

He said, “Charanjit Channi is a Chief Minister, he’s not a terrorist that you are stopping him from flying to Hoshiarpur! This is not the way.”

He was reportedly made to wait for more than an hour. His helicopter was permitted to fly only after PM Modi’s travel was completed. Amid Modi’s travel “no-fly zone” was enforced because of the PM’s visit to Jalandhar.

Channi, who was taking a chopper from Chandigarh to Hoshiarpur for Rahul Gandhi’s rally, finally returned home from the helipad.

“I was in Una at 11 am but suddenly permission to fly (to Hoshiarpur) was denied due to PM Modi’s movement, it was declared a no-fly zone. I was not able to attend Rahul Gandhi’s rally in Hoshiarpur. I had permission to land,” Channi was quoted as telling news agency ANI on what is quickly becoming a huge political row.

Tough Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi’s chopper was unable to reach the spot, Rahul Gandhi’s chopper was allowed to land in the town.

“The Chief Minister was scheduled to come here but it’s shameful that this government cancelled permission for Charanjit Singh Channi to come to Hoshiarpur. If Election Commission doesn’t take cognisance of this, I’ll understand that these polls are a farce, a sham,” said Congress leader Sunil Jakhar.

PM Modi addressing rally at Jalandhar in his first visit to Punjab since a security breach last month, referred to a similar hold-up in the past to target Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.

PM Modi said in 2014, when he was campaigning as the BJP’s presumptive Prime Minister, his helicopter was held up in Punjab because “Yuvraj (prince)” was flying to Amritsar.

“My name was announced for PM candidate. I had to visit Pathankot and Himachal to campaign. But my chopper was not allowed to fly because their yuvraj (prince) was also in Amritsar. So the Congress has a habit of not allowing the opposition to work,” PM Modi said.

On January 5, the Prime Minister had to skip a chopper ride over poor weather and was on his way to a rally by road when he was forced to spend 20 minutes on a flyover in Bathinda because of a blockade by farm protesters.

PM Modi finally turned back from the spot and left for Delhi without addressing the rally.

“I wanted to visit Devi Ka Talab but the Punjab Police said it can’t allow it due to security. This is the condition of security in Punjab,” PM Modi remarked today, in what appeared to be a reference to that episode.

Punjab will vote on Sunday for a new government.

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