India's Omicron tally tops 350, PM Modi holds review meet, states bring back curbs

India’s Omicron tally crossed the 350-mark on Thursday with a record single-day jump of over 90 fresh cases in a day. It's a big jump from 44 new cases on Tuesday.

Tamil Nadu recorded the highest daily count on Thursday with 33 fresh Omicron cases, followed by Maharashtra which added 23 cases and Karnataka which reported 12 infections. Delhi and Gujarat reported seven cases each while two patients tested positive for the highly infectious coronavirus variant in Odisha.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, meanwhile, held a review meeting on the Covid-19 situation in the country on Thursday evening.

PM Modi took stock of the pandemic situation across the country in the high-level meeting attended by senior officials and experts and asked them to be 'satark, savdhaan' over the Omicron variant.

Several states and UTs have passed orders to ban gatherings on Christmas and New Year to restrict the spread of the virus. While Delhi has banned Christmas and New Year's gatherings, Madhya Pradesh government has clamped night curfew in the state.

The Centre advised states that are slated to hold assembly polls in the next few months to ramp up vaccination exponentially to protect the vulnerable population amid the steady rise in cases of the Omicron variant of coronavirus in India.

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