The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday issued fresh guidelines for sealing buildings in Mumbai amid the COVID-19 case surge. According to the guidelines, the whole building or a wing shall be sealed if more than 20 per cent of the occupied number of flats in the building or wing are found to be COVID positive. The guidelines shall come into effect from today, that is January 4, 2021.
Just when the country may have thought that they had put their worst behind them, fear of an imminent third wave now looms large with a surge in new infections of Covid, and cases of the new Omicron variant of the virus, which is highly transmissible, might derail the recovery made in the last few months. Maharashtra continues to record the maximum Omicron cases followed by Delhi, Kerala and Gujarat. Meanwhile, several states have imposed restrictions and night curfew, to curb the spread of the infection. 
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COVID-19 continued to gallop across Bihar as 87 doctors at Nalanda Medical College and Hospital in Patna have tested positive. According to Chandrashekhar Singh, Patna DM, all are either asymptomatic or have mild symptoms and are in isolation on the hospital campus.
India's Covid tally rose to 3,49,22,882 with 33,750 fresh cases, while the active cases increased to 1,45,582, according to the data updated at 8 am. The death toll climbed to 4,81,893 with 123 more fatalities, the data showed. The active cases have increased to 1,45,582 comprising 0.42 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.20 per cent, the health ministry said.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) has arrested one more farmer in connection with the alleged lynching of three BJP workers during the violence that took place in Lakhimpur Kheri on October 3 last year. Lakhimpur Kheri police and senior prosecution officer (SPO) SP Yadav said that Gurpreet Singh, 22, had been absconding since the SIT released pictures of the suspects nearly two months ago.
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