As India recorded 7,240 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours and the active cases surged to 32,498, the Covid situation in Maharashtra, Kerala, Delhi, and Karnataka is back on the radar.
The Centre has asked these States to employ a five-fold strategy: Test-track-treat-vaccine and adherence to Covid-19 Appropriate Behaviour (CAB).
The single-day rise in new coronavirus infections at 7,240 comes after 99 days, registering around 39 per cent jump in daily cases, while the daily positivity rate crossed 2 per cent after 111 days, said an official from the Union Health Ministry on Thursday.
There has been a spike in Covid cases in Maharashtra and Kerala. In both States, test positivity rates have crossed the WHO’s threshold limit of 5 per cent. There has been a sharp rise in Covid-related hospitalisations in Mumbai in the last few days, the official said.
Mumbai logged its highest single day count since January 26 with 1,765 new Covid-19 cases taking the active caseload in the city to 7,000.
In a startling increase in daily Covid-19 cases, Maharashtra on Wednesday recorded 2,701 new infections, highest in nearly four months, and zero fatality.
The State had last recorded 2,797 fresh cases on February 17 this year. The active cases stand at 9,806. On Tuesday, Maharashtra had reported 1,881 coronavirus cases, a sizable increase compared to 1,036 infections reported the previous day.
Meanwhile, Delhi logged 622 fresh Covid cases and two more deaths on Thursday, while the positivity rate rose to 3.17 per cent.
With this, Delhi’s Covid-19 tally increased to 19,10,613 while the death toll rose to 26,216. Delhi on Wednesday had logged 564 Covid-19 cases, the highest since May 15, and one more fatality, while the positivity rate was 2.84 per cent.
Recently, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan asked State officials in Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to closely monitor emerging
clusters, maintain adequate number of testing and
send samples from infected individuals for genome sequencing.
“In past 2 weeks, an upsurge in Covid-19 cases has been noticed. States/UTs must not lower their guard and continue working towards building on progress made thus far to bring the pandemic situation under control,” he said in a letter to the States reporting surge in the infection.
