The growing number of cases in the country has become a matter of concern. The daily cases have started to shoot up in Kerala and many fear that this may be the beginning of the third wave. It is also being believed that the cases have started to balloon due to the Delta plus variant.
Keeping these factors in mind, Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has decided to amp up the efforts in the city. On Thursday, the civic body of Nagpur announced that institutional quarantine or hospitalisation will be mandatory for every patient testing positive for coronavirus in the city.
Municipal commissioner Radhakrishnan B has issued an order regarding this and directed all zone commissioners to put patients testing coronavirus positive under institutional quarantine or ensure their hospitalization, an NMC release said.
On Thursday 6 new COVID-19 infections were reported in the city while the active caseload stands at 75. While announcing the order the authorities noted that the cases are under control and the infection rate too is not very high in the city. However, they insisted that measures like these are necessary to make sure that things don't change significantly. It was also mentioned that threat from the Delta plus variant, considered highly infectious, persists in the city.
Apart from this, the vaccination drive is being conducted in the full country in full swing, including Maharashtra.
India inoculated over 80 lakh people against COVID-19 on Wednesday, August 25, surpassing the 60 crore mark in total doses administered, according to the official data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
As per the data, as of August 26, 7 am Uttar Pradesh with 5,55,94,890 jabs in leading the vaccination drive. Maharasthra is currently at Number 2 with 4,02,70,837 doses. In terms of second doses, Maharashtra tops the list having administered 1,45,94,471 second doses. It is followed by Gujarat with 1,08,90,762 doses
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