Cong cancels all UP rallies amid mega Covid spike

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New Delhi, January 5 (agencies) The Congress party has cancelled all rallies in poll-going Uttar Pradesh. UP CM Yogi Adityanath cancels his rally in Noida.

Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi today when asked about holding rallies put the responsibility on states. “It depends on the state governments, keeping in mind the situation in their states whether they want to organise rallies or not. No one should panic in this situation, we need planning, prevention and precaution to fight Covid,” Naqvi said.

A total of 2,135 cases of Omicron variant of coronavirus have been detected across 24 states and UTs, out of which, 828 have recovered or migrated, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Wednesday.

Maharashtra recorded the maximum number of 653 cases followed by Delhi at 464, Kerala 185, Rajasthan 174, Gujarat 154 and Tamil Nadu 121 cases.

India saw a single-day rise of 58,097 new coronavirus infections, the highest in around 199 days, taking the total tally of cases to 3,50,18,358. The active cases were recorded above 2 lakh after around 81 days, according to the data updated at 8 am.

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