Covid news and the latest on the Omicron variant: Live Updates

The country logged 258,089 new confirmed Covid-19 cases, bringing its total tally to 37,380,253, according to figures released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday.From Monday, people with Covid-19 in the United Kingdom can stop self-isolating after five full days, as long as they don't have a temperature and return negative test results on days five and six.Those who return positive test results must continue to self-isolate until they record two consecutive negative results on separate days, according to a statement from the UK Department of Health & Social Care.Day zero is the day someone first noticed symptoms, or the day they took their test if they are asymptomatic, according to the statement