Top News of The Day: India's Omicron Patient Number 1 "Escaped" | The News

One of the two men found positive for Omicron in Karnataka "escaped" after taking a Covid negative certificate from a private lab, the state government said today. The state is trying to track down 10 more people who reportedly went missing from the airport; South Africa is being hit by a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections driven by the Omicron variant which has been detected in seven of the country's nine provinces, Health Minister Joe Phaahla said; Cyclone Jawad is expected to hit parts of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh coasts on Sunday morning. Odisha has stopped fishing activities as a precaution while Andhra Pradesh has sounded a high alert and deployed official machinery in three districts along the north coast and other stories of the day.

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