Amid surge, Centre closely monitoring Covid-19 situation in Maha, other states

After a surge in Covid cases across the country Union Health Ministry is closely monitoring the situation in the states like Maharashtra Kerala Delhi and Karnataka and has asked them to follow the fivefold strategy and ampup testing said official sources on ThursdayThe Ministry has also asked the States to monitor clusters of new Covid cases and follow Covid appropriate behaviour sources told ANIRecently Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan wrote to the officials of five states Kerala Karanataka Maharashtra Telangana and Tamil Nadu to closely monitor emerging clusters maintain adequate number of testing and send samples from infected individuals for genome sequencingThere are few states which are reporting a higher contribution to Indias cases indicating the possibility of a localised spread of infection There is therefore a need to follow a risk assessment based approach on the public health responses without losing the gains made so far in the fight against the pandemic reads the letterIndia on Thursday witnessed another jump in the daily Covid cases as the country reported 7240 infections in the last 24 hours according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family WelfareOn Wednesday India saw a rise of nearly 41 per cent in the daily Covid cases as the country logged 5233 infections This increase is believed to be led by another surge in Covid cases in Maharashtra The state reported 2701 new coronavirus cases last eveningWith this surge in Covid cases the active caseload in the country stands at 32498 constituting 008 per cent of Indias total positive casesThe daily positivity rate was observed to be 131 per cent in the last 24 hours while the weekly positivity rate was recorded to be 213 the Health Ministry informed The last 24 hours also saw 3591 recoveries taking the total recoveries to 42640301 Indias Recovery Rate is currently at 9871 per centIndia conducted 340615 Covid19 tests in the last 24 hours The country has so far conducted 8538 crore 853863238 total tests so far as per the Indian Council of Medical Research ICMR dataMaharashtra logged 2701 new Covid cases on Wednesday the highest in nearly four months Of the total 1765 cases were reported from Mumbai Further Karnataka on Wednesday recorded 376 new Covid cases of which 358 patients were from Bengaluru Delhi reported a fresh surge in Covid cases as the city logged 450 cases on Wednesday the Delhi Health Department informed The city also saw one death due to Covid on WednesdayKerala recorded 2271 new Covid cases and six deaths on TuesdayThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever