Ennore gas leak LIVE Updates:
At least 9 people were rushed to hospital and 230 others were evacuated after a gas leak from a fertiliser manufacturing facility, involved in the manufacture of Ammonium Phosphate Potash Sulphate, in Tamil Nadu s Ennore on Tuesday night. Elsewhere, in Karnataka, some 430 cases of Covid19 JN.1 variant are active out of which 400 are in home isolation and the rest are in hospital, according to state Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao.
The Chinese province of Henan has ordered its nearly 100 million people to take a covid test every two days, an unprecedented step as the country grapples with an Omicron-fuelled surge.
At 9:30 a.m. every day this week, a soft-spoken official has appeared on North Korean television to report the number of people with fever and new deaths, and to explain measures to stop North Korea's first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak.