The health ministry has directed states and union territories to follow a risk assessment-based approach to prevent and contain the infection.
New Delhi India reported 9,355 covid cases and 26 deaths in the last 24 hours, the union health ministry data said on Thursday.
While the daily positivity rate has reached 4.08%, the weekly positivity rate touched 5.36%. The country’s active cases stood at 57,410.
In the last three years of the pandemic, India has reported to more than 44.9 million covid cases and 53,1424 deaths. Karnataka reported 1734 active cases, Kerala has 13773 active cases, Maharashtra 5233 cases, Gujarat 1632 cases, Delhi 4708 cases, Tamil Nadu 3463 cases; Himachal Pradesh 1172 cases, Haryana 4394 cases, Chhattisgarh 2857 cases, Rajasthan 3440 and Uttar Pradesh 3874 cases. “In April, those who are getting cold, cough and flu like symptoms, it is covid only because influenza virus cannot sustain in rising temperature.