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2 28 pmOn Omicron, a new warning from SA scientistsPNS nNEW DELHIL eading South African scientistswarned it is still too early to deter-mine that the omicron variant willonly cause mild true impact of the coron-avirus strain is currently hard todetermine because it has so farmostly affected young people, whoare better able to fight off thepathogen, and people tend to getsicker after carrying the virus forsome time, the scientists said in apresentation to lawmakers onWe d n e s d a the National Institute forCommunicable Diseases said thedaily number of new confirmedcases in South Africa almost dou-bled to 8,561 infections in the last24 hours. Omicron is now by farthe dominant strain in the latest infections haveoccurred "mostly in the youngerage groups but we are starting to seethis move into the older agegroups," Michelle Groome, head ofpublic health surveillance andresponse at the NICD, told the law-makers.

3 "We are also expecting thatthe more severe complications maynot present themselves for a fewweeks."On Nov. 25, the South Africangovernment and scientistsannounced that a new variant,later christened omicron by theWorld Health Organization, hadbeen found in the country. Thattriggered an equity market sell-offand led to the imposition of trav-el bans on several southern parties urgeCentre to send DamSafety Bill to select panelPNS nNEW DELHIO pposition parties, including theCongress, the TMC and the DMK,demanded from the government inthe Rajya Sabha on Thursday thatthe Dam Safety Bill, 2019 be sentto a parliamentary select commit-tee, saying it needs scrutiny as it is"unconstitutional and encroachesupon the states' rights".The bill seeks to provide for sur-veillance, inspection, operationand maintenance of specified damsfor the prevention of dam failure-related disasters and to provide foran institutional mechanism toensure their safe functioning andfor matters connected therewith orincidental has been passed by the Union Minister for JalShakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawatmoved the bill for the considera-tion of the House, DMK leaderTiruchi Siva moved an amendmentto the bill to send it to the the amendment, Sivasaid, "India is a union of states.

4 Theunique feature of our democracyand the Constitution is that itworks on federalism. The stateshave their own rights. Entry 17 ofthe states' list provides for the statesto make laws with regard to watersupply, drainage, embankmentetc."Jagan visits flood-hit villages,inspects damaged roads, housesPNS nVIJAYAWADAC hief Minister YS JaganmohanReddy visited the flood-affectedvillages in Rajampet mandal ofYSR Kadapa district on Chief Minister reachedPulapatturu village from the heli-pad near Mandapalli, and walkedaround the village and inspecteddamaged roads and houses. Heinteracted with women andenquired them about the lossincurred due to the floods andconsoled the family members ofpeople who lost their went around a photo exhi-bition depicting the flood inten-sity.

5 He also enquired about theresponse of the officials duringthe floods and regarding compen-sation provided to them. Theytold the Chief Minister that offi-cials and local leaders haveresponded well and worked hardin helping them. He lauded theefforts of the youth who savedothers during the floods. TheChief Minister sought detailsfrom flood victim Gandham SivaPrasad on how the flood enteredthe village. He said he savedseven out of nine in his family andthe rest of two died due to suffo-cationLater, the Chief Minister inter-acted with the people at tempo-rary relief camps and enquiredabout the services being provid-ed to them. He also enquiredANMs on medical camps beingset up in the village. He visited theVillage Secretariat which hassaved the lives of many peopleduring the floods and interactedwith the staff and enquiredprogress of relief works, compen-sation and other threat puts north coastal Andhra on high alert PNS nVISAKHAPATNAMThe well-marked low pressure overthe southeast Bay of bengal and itsintensification would lead to acyclonic storm over the central Bayof bengal on December 3.

6 The lowpressure lies over the southeast Bayof bengal with the associatedcyclonic circulation extending upto mid-tropospheric levels byWednesday evening. It is likely to move northwest-wards and concentrate into adepression over the southeast andadjoining east-central Bay ofBengal. Further, it is likely to movenorthwestwards and intensifyinto a cyclonic storm over thecentral parts of the Bay of Bengalin the next 24 hours. It is likelyto reach the west -central Bay ofBengal off north Andhra Pradeshand south Odisha coasts byDecember its influence, rain orthundershowers are likely to occurat many places over north coastalAndhra Pradesh and a few placesover South Coastal AndhraPradesh during the next 48 rainfall is very likely tooccur at one or two places in theEast Godavari district and Yanam.

7 CM reviews situationwith 3 Dist Collectors PNS nVIJAYAWADA3 Chief Minister YSJaganmohan Reddy held areview meeting with theCollectors of Srikakulam,Vizianagaram andVisakhapatnam districts regard-ing the situation in the wake ofcyclone threat to North Andhraregion and discussed the pre-cautionary measures to betaken. During the review meetingheld here on Thursday, theChief Minister directed theDistrict Collectors and offi-cials to set up relief camps atrequired locations. He instruct-ed the officials to be alert inlow-lying areas and ensure noneis troubled due to the nVISAKHAPATNAMT hree persons, including onewho was alleged to have beenpractising 'black magic', werekilled at Bagmarvalasa in Tokurupanchayat of Anantagiri mandalin the district late on to police, K Komati,a resident of the village, wasrecently branded as a 'Tonhi', aman practising black magic.

8 Thevillagers believed that Komatiwas making people sick withspells of Wednesday midnight, aheated argument ensued betweenthe families of Komati and anoth-er villager G Dombu. Dombu'sson Subba Rao attacked Komatiand his sons Killo Bhagwan andK Balaram with a knife. Komatidied on the spot while his sonswere severely injured in the cases of Omicron detected inKarnataka; don t panic: govtPNS nNEW DELHITwo cases of the new Omicronvariant of coronavirus have beendetected in Karnataka, the Uniongovernment said on Thursdaywhile asking people not to panicbut follow Covid-appropriatebehaviour and get vaccinated with-out the patients are men aged66 years and 46 years with mildsymptoms. Severe symptoms havenot been noted, an official said dur-ing a press said following the detectionof the two Omicron cases throughthe INSACOG network, all theirprimary and secondary contactswere traced in time and werebeing tested.

9 "We need not panic aboutOmicron detection but awarenessis absolutely essential. FollowCovid-appropriate behaviour andavoid gatherings," the official said,adding that increased COVID-19vaccine uptake was the need of thehour."Do not delay in getting fullyvaccinated," he government stated that 373cases of Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 have been detected in 29nations so far and India was mon-itoring the situation."It is too early to assess whetherOmicron causes more severe infec-tion or less compared to variants,including Delta," the official toldthe press conference quoting theWorld Health Organisation whichhas designated the new variant asa 'variant of concern'.The press conference wasinformed that the South East Asianregion, including India, has only cent of the world's COVID-19cases in the last one contactstest positivefor CovidPNS nBENGALURUFive contacts of an Omicronpatient a doctor from Bengaluru-- have turned out to be Covid pos-itive, Karnataka announced today,shortly after the Union healthministry said the first patients ofthe new Covid variant have beenfound in the state.

10 The patientshave been isolated and their sam-ples have been sent for genometesting, Karnataka said amid con-cern over the highly infectiousstrain that has set off global of the two initial patientsis a 46-year-old fully vaccinateddoctor from Bengaluru, who hadno travel history and developedsymptoms of fever and body acheon November tested positive the followingday and was admitted to hospital;his sample was sent for genomesequencing on the same day. Butthree days later he was extensive contact tracing,the Karnataka government said hehad 13 direct contacts and morethan 250 secondary given to 98%flood-hit people, claims CMPNS nVIJAYAWADAC hief Minister YS JaganmohanReddy interacted with the farm-ers and flood-affected people atPulapatturu village in YSR districthere on Thursday.