Puducherry Dec 27 PTI The cumulative COVID-19 figure in Puducherry went up to 129 lakh as 10 cases were added afresh on MondayPuducherry region alone logged 10 infections while the other outlying regions of Karaikal Mahe and Yanam did not report any fresh caseThe new cases were identified at the end of examination of 635 samplesThe Health Department has tested so far 2040 448 samples and has found 1729567 out of them to be negativeNo fresh fatality was reported from any of the regions and the total tally remained 1880The active cases were 126 which included 38 cases in hospitals and remaining 88 patients were in home isolation Director of Health G Sriramulu said in a releaseWhile 11 patients recovered and were discharged during last twenty-four hours the overall recoveries stood at 127419The test positivity rate was 157 percent while fatality and recovery rates were 145 percent and 9845 percent respectivelyThe Health Department has administered 1375298 doses which comprised 827546 first and 547752 second doses PTI COR ROH ROH

Puducherry Dec 26 PTI Former Chief Minister of Puducherry and senior Congress leader V Narayanasamy on Sunday called upon Lieutenant Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan and Chief Minister NRangasamy to ban New year eve celebration in the Union Territory as the current unabated pandemic situation and the apprehended outbreak of Omicron do not warrant such a celebration In his virtual press conference here the former Chief Minister said every New Year eve n witnesses not than 10000 people from within Puducherry and also from other States thronging the seashore here Coronavirus and also its new variant Omicron have been holding the people to ransom in several States Bigger States like Karnataka have banned the celebration of New Year Consequently people will make a beeline to Puducherry and be a super-spreader of the virus he said and wanted the ban on celebration Narayanasamy wanted the government of Puducherry to reconsider the plan to hold the National Youth Festival here for five days from January 12 I am not able to understand why the Centre and Puducherry government have selected the relatively small Puducherry to hold the festival Not less than 8000 people are expected to visit Puducherry from different States for the festival he said Narayanasamy feared that the festival would lead to the spread of coronavirus fast and open the gates for the outbreak of Omicron although so far Omicron has not hit Puducherry The former Chief Minister said the government should take into consideration the health and safety of the people when decisions to hold festivals are taken He said the move to use the now-closed AFT Mill as a Covid Care Centre is a wrong decision The Indira Gandhi Government Medical College Hospital which has served as a Covid hospital has three additional blocks where the patients can be accommodated he said He said the alleged replacement of gold ornaments pledged by customers with the Puducherry Cooperative Urban Bank with fakes has struck at the root of the faith of the people in the bank Two officials of the bank have been arrested in the wake of unearthing of the scam The police should crack down on the accused without bowing to any pressure to hush up the case he said He alleged that the Rangasamy-headed NDA government was siphoning off funds from several departments and schemes to distribute flood relief to families holding ration cards PTI COR NVG NVG

Puducherry Dec 26 PTI Puducherry Assembly Speaker R Selvam led the Union Territory on Sunday to pay homage to those killed in the tsunami in 2004 PWD Minister K Lakshminarayanan and Home Minister A Namassivayam and heads of fishermen associations and officials of the Department of Fisheries and Fishermens Welfare poured milk in the Bay of Bengal here in remembrance of the victims of the catastrophe Leaders of different political parties such as the AIADMK and the DMK also paid homage to the victims of different hamlets that was struck by the tsunami Puducherry and Karaikal regions bore the brunt of the havoc in 2004 rendering several fishermen families homeless and claiming lives of several people PTI COR NVG NVG

Puducherry Dec 25 PTI Puducherry confirmed 12 new cases of coronavirus during the last 24 hours pushing the total case count to 129406The 12 fresh cases were identified at the end of examination of 1700 samples and the cases were spread over Puducherry 7 Karaikal and Mahe regions 2 cases each while Yanam registered one new caseDirector of the Department of Health G Sriramulu said in a release that the active cases were 145 of whom 34 patients were in hospitals and the remaining 111 patients in home isolationNo fresh fatality was reported during last twenty-four hours from any of the four regions of Puducherry Karaikal Mahe and Yanam and the toll remained 1880Twenty-one patients recovered and were discharged during last twenty-four hours and the overall recoveries were 127379The Health Department has tested so far 2037590 samples and has found 1726777 out of them to be negativeThe test positivity rate was 071 percent while fatality and recovery rates were 145 percent and 9843 percent respectively the Director addedThe Health Department has administered so far 1372186 doses which comprised 826345 first doses and 545841 second PTI COR ROH ROH

Puducherry Dec 24 PTI Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry Tamilisai Soundararajan Chief Minister N Rangasamy Ministers and former Chief Minister V Narayanasamy on Friday extended greetings to the people of the Union Territory on the eve of Christmas In her greetings the Lieutenant Governor said love brotherhood and concern for fellow beings highlighted the celebration of the festival She called upon the people to adhere to safety COVID-19 protocols during the celebrations Chief Minister N Rangasamy in his greetings said showing love and affection to all marked the important feature of the festival Member of Lok Sabha from Puducherry V Vaithilingam was among those who extended the greetings PTI CORR NVG NVG

Puducherry Dec 24 PTI The union territory of Puducherry clocked 20 new COVID-19 cases during the last 24 hours as the overall tally to 129 394 a senior official of the Department of Health said on Friday The union territory did not record any fresh fatality for the fifth straight day Director of Health G Sriramulu said in a release here The fresh cases were identified at the end of the examination of 2466 samples were spread over Puducherry 11 Karaikal 8 and Mahe one Yanam region an enclave of Puducherry in Andhra Pradesh did not report any fresh case the Director said The number of active cases stood at 154 which included 33 patients in hospitals and the remaining 121 in home isolation Sriramulu said no fresh fatality was reported from any of the four regions of Puducherry Karaikal Mahe and Yanam and the death toll remained at 1880 As many as 12 patients recovered and were discharged during the last 24 hours ending 10 AM Friday as the overall recoveries went up to 127360 The Department of Health has so far tested 2035124 samples and has found 1724377 out of them to be negative he said The test positivity rate stood at 081 per cent while the fatality and recovery rates were 145 per cent and 9843 per cent respectively Sriramulu said the department has so far administered 1367914 doses which comprised 824671 first dose and 543243 second dose PTI Cor SS SS SS