There's a growing chorus among locals in Gujarat's Morbi for action against the illegal construction of a mosque built next to the historic Mani temple in Morbi. The majestic structure in Morbi is a Hindu temple that has statues of God Shiva, Goddess Kali as well as Lord Ram. 
India will witness a peak in the number of COVID-19 cases by next month with the expectation of reporting five lakh cases per day, a US-based health expert said, adding that however "the severity of the variant will be less this time in the country than Delta variant. "Dr Christopher Murray, Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and Chair of the Health Metrics Sciences at the University of Washington said, "You are entering the Omicron wave, as many countries around the world are, and we expect that there will be more cases per day at the peak than you had in April last year for the Delta wave, but Omicron is much less severe." "So, while you will have many cases and set records probably for cases. It should be less of an impact on the severity of the disease. We currently have in the models that we will release later, we expect about five lakh cases at the peak, which should come in during the next month," he added. As many experts in India say that the country has hybrid immunity due to which Omicron will be less effective, Dr Murray said, "What we know from a place like South Africa where there was a tremendous amount of prior infection, both Delta as well as Beta. Vaccination doses provide considerable protection for severe disease, from hospitalisation and death, which is why we think there will be many Omicron cases in India, but much less hospitalization and death than you had in the Delta wave." Speaking about the number of hospitalizations and severity due to the variant, he said, "We expect that 85.2 per cent of infections will have no symptoms. They will be asymptomatic, but amongst the cases, we still expect quite a number of them to end up in hospitals and in terms of death, cases will be much reduced. So we expect that the peak of hospital admissions in India will be about a quarter of what you had for the Delta wave, and deaths should be less of what you saw for Delta."
Delhi and its adjoining areas witnessed heavy rainfall with thunderstorms in the early hours of Saturday (January 8).
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COVID-19 India News Updates: India recorded 1,17,100 new cases of the novel coronavirus, along with 302 deaths due to the infection in the past 24 hours. According to the data shared by the Union Health Ministry on Friday, the country saw a total of 30,836 discharges in the last 24 hours, taking the total recovery rate at around 97.57 per cent and total recoveries data reached to 3,43,71,845.
Three terrorists were killed in an encounter that broke out on Thursday evening (January 6) in Jammu and Kashmir's Zolwa Kralpora Chadoora area of Budgam district, said the Kashmir Zone Police on Friday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the second campus of Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) in West Bengal's Kolkata today at around 1:00 PM through video conferencing.Republic Day 2024 : As India's 75th Republic Day Parade kicked off in the national capital, a 30-member band contingent and a marching c...
