As India witnessed a nearly 90 per cent spike in daily Covid cases over Sunday and a 165 per cent rise in the positivity in the last 24 hours, the Centre shot off a letter to Kerala flagging delayed reporting of cases by the state.
Noting a contraction in the third wave of Covid-19 and a consistent decline in new cases for 14 days, the government today said it was up to states and district administrations to reopen schools, keeping the Education Ministry’s Covid guidelines in mind.
The government on Friday said 25 cases of the Omicron variant of coronavirus have been detected in India so far and that mostly mild symptoms have been noted in all the cases.