Last week, the union health ministry directed the state/UT government to follow a risk assessment-based approach to prevent and contain the infection.
India reported 918 new covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours with daily positivity rate at 2.08%, the union health ministry said on Monday.
With more than 44.8 million cases, the country has recorded more than 530,806 deaths so far. The trajectory of covid cases has increased gradually across the country with Karnataka reporting 616 active cases while Kerala has 1796 active cases.
Maharashtra has 1308 active cases, Gujarat with 740 cases, Delhi has recorded 208 cases, Tamil Nadu has 363 active cases; Telangana with 237 cases so far.