As many states witness a sharp rise in daily cases of coronavirus amid speculations of a third wave of the ongoing pandemic, the central government is set to review the situation in ten states. Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan will review the situation in Kerala, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Assam, Mizoram, Meghalaya and Manipur; on Saturday.
A six-member multi-disciplinary team from centre is already in Kerala for monitoring. Headed by director of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Dr Sujeet Singh, the team reached Thiruvananthapuram on Friday night. The state had reported more than 20,000 fresh cases of covid 19 on Friday. Number of cases from Kerala contributed to 50 per cent of the country’s total single-day Covid-19 tally, for the fourth day in a row.
In Maharashtra, there were 6,600 new Covid-19 cases and 231 deaths on Friday pushing the caseload in the state to 62,96,756 and the death toll to 132,566.