Active cases in the country have climbed to 16,354....
New Delhi: within last 24 hours India reported 2,994 new Covid-19 cases, along with increase in daily positivity rate of 2.09%, on Saturday the union health ministry said. Active case in the country have increased to 16,354.
India has recorded more than 44.8 million cases, and over 530,876 deaths due to Covid so far. Across the country covid cases have been increasing in Karnataka 1,108 active cases, Kerala 4375 active cases, in Maharashtra 3090 active cases, Gujrat 2310 cases, Delhi 945 cases, Himachal Pradesh 873 cases and Tamil Nadu 777 cases.
The union health ministry has directed the states and union territories to follow a risk assessment-based approach to prevent and contain the infection.
The ministry has advised state governments to examine the covid-19 situation at micro level (district and sub-districts) and maintain focus on implementation of necessary measures for prompt and effective management of covid-19 duly ensuring effective compliance.
The five-fold strategy, i.e., Test-Track Treat-Vaccination should be followed with continued focus on adequate & proactive testing as per guidelines, monitoring new and emerging clusters of new Covid-19 cases along with monitoring the trend of Influenza-like illness (ILI) & SARI cases in all health facilities or through dedicated fever clinics on a regular basis for detecting early warning signals of the spread of infection," the health ministry stated as there are few states which are reporting higher number of cases indicating possible localized spread of infection.
According to recent reports, around 4,41,71,551 people have been recovered from the infection with current recovery rate hitting 98.78%.
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