India on Sunday recorded 41,831 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours taking the country’s tally of cases to 3,16,55,824 since the pan...
India on Sunday recorded 41,831 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours taking the country’s tally of cases to 3,16,55,824 since the pandemic broke out in January last year. This is marginally higher than Saturday’s count of 41,469 cases.
With 541 deaths, the toll rose to 4,24,351. The number of active cases went up by 2,032 to 4,10,952. A total of 3,08,20,521 patients have recovered from the disease.
Following a review meeting on the pandemic situation, the Centre, on Saturday, flagged 10 states that are either reporting an increase in daily cases or a rise in the positivity rate. These states are Kerala, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Assam, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Andhra Pradesh and Manipur, the government said.
Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said that the states need to consider imposing stricter restrictions such as preventing or limiting the movement of residents as well as mass gathering in 46 districts reporting a positivity rate of over 10% in the last few weeks.
Meanwhile, the Maharashtra government may relax Covid-19 related restrictions in 25 districts of the state which have been reporting lower daily caseload and positivity rate, according to the Hindustan Times. State Health Minister Rajesh Tope said that the government was also considering allowing fully vaccinated people to travel on local...
