Health Ministry issued alert for these 4 states amid covid-19 surge

Covid-19 cases surge in India, covid fourth wave fear starts in India. Health Ministry issued alert for these 4 states amid covid-19 surge. The COVID-19 situation in Maharashtra, Kerala, Delhi, and Karnataka is being constantly monitored by the Health Ministry.

It has instructed the said states to employ a five-fold strategy: test-track-treat-vaccine and adherence to COVID-19 Appropriate Behaviour are required. The Ministry has also directed the States to keep an eye on clusters of new COVID-19 cases and adopt COVID-19 best practices.

Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan recently wrote to officials in Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana, and Tamil Nadu, urging them to actively monitor growing clusters, maintain an adequate number of testing, and send samples from sick people for genetic sequencing.

Few states which are reporting a higher contribution to India’s 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 letter.

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India reported 7,240 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Thursday, its highest number of daily cases since March 2. India’s financial capital Mumbai, which has seen a rapid rise in cases, reported 1,765 new infections late on Wednesday, an increase of more than 500 cases from its Tuesday caseload.

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The country reported eight deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said, taking the official death toll to 524,723 on June 9. The single-day rise in new coronavirus infections in the country was recorded over 7,000 after 99 days, registering around 39 per cent jump in daily cases, while the daily positivity rate crossed 2 per cent after 111 days, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday.