Omicron LIVE Updates: After 8 Months, India Logs 3.17L Daily Cases, Positivity Rate 16.41%; Pandemic ‘Nowhere Near Over’, Says WHO

Omicron LIVE Updates: In the last 24 hours, India reported 3,17,532 new COVID cases and 491 deaths, as per the Health Ministry’s latest data. World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus poured cold water on the theory that Omicron could mark the end of the Covid-19 pandemic and said “This pandemic is nowhere near over.” Maharashtra is likely to open schools from January 24 and