Maharashtra, Kerala, Delhi, and Karnataka have been directed again to employ a five-fold strategy to tackle upsurge in COVID-19 cases of test-track-treat-vaccine and adherence to COVID-19 Appropriate Behaviour.
Health secretary Bharat Bhushan has written to these states to keep an eye on COVID clusters. Stating that 81% of the cases in the last 24 hours were from these states the Ministry said that 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.
Coronavirus infections in the country rose by 7,240 in the 24 hours to 8 a.m. on Thursday, 39% jump from the previous day’s figure. The tally is crossing 7,000 after 99 days, while the daily positivity rate crossed 2% after 111 days, the Union Health Ministry.
