active cases have also gone up to 49,622, according to the Union Health Ministry and the death toll has climbed to 5,31,064, with 29 more deaths reported.
As a result of this surge, several states have announced new precautions to contain the spread of the virus. Here are list of precautions imposed by states to keep Covid in check: The Tamil Nadu government has decided to ramp up the RT-PCR testing process, increasing the daily number of tests from 4,000 to 11,000.
The state's Health Minister, M Subramaniam, also mentioned that the health department would carry out 2% random sampling of international travellers.
In Odisha's Bhubaneswar, the Capital Hospital has increased RT-PCR and antigen testing against Covid-19. The hospital has ten Covid observation beds with all necessary health facilities for Covid-19 patients.