Massive damage at the port is reported from the air raid with most of the port on fire, although there are no immediate reports of casualties from the attack. Videos on
social media show multiple large explosions and
anti-aircraft fire over the city. A hospital, shops, and some residential buildings were also badly damaged.
(Al Jazeera)
Delhi enters Level 1 "Yellow alert" which closes cinemas, schools, colleges, and gyms, imposes a nighttime curfew from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., and restricts the capacity of public transport, restaurants, funerals and weddings, due to an increase in the number of
Omicron variant cases.
(The Times of India)
Bangladesh begins administering
booster doses of the
COVID-19 vaccine for people over the age of 60 and frontline workers who have been fully vaccinated more than six months ago as the country attempts to reduce the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.
(Bdnews24.com)
China issues stay-at home orders for hundreds of thousands of people in
Yan'an due to the spread of COVID-19 cases, which also resulted in a
lockdown in
Xi'an, the country's largest lockdown since last year.
(France 24)
Cyprus reports a record for the second consecutive day of 2,241 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 154,926.
(Financial Mirror)
Greece reports a record for the second consecutive day of 21,657 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,105,885.
(Kathimerini)
Portugal reports a record 17,172 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,303,291.
(The Portugal News)
South Africa postpones a plan to end COVID-19
contact tracing and suspend some quarantine measures in order to consider additional comments about the policy after the government received many inquiries about the plan.
(Bloomberg News)