'Celebrate festivals at home, embrace vaccination': Govt's curt message as cases spike

Updated : Sep 02, 2021 17:50
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Editorji News Desk

As the festival season approaches amid a spike in Covid-19 cases in the country, the Centre has asked people to celebrate festivals at home, avoid large gatherings and embrace vaccination. 

Kerala is the only state with over one lakh active Covid-19 cases, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh have 10,000 - 1 lakh active cases and other states have less than 10,000 cases, according to the govt. 

Also watch: Covid-19 in India: Biggest spike in 2 months with 47,000 new cases

Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said that overall a declining trend in weekly positivity has been observed across India since week ending May 10 but this isn't the end of the 2nd wave. 

16% of the total adult population has been fully vaccinated and 54% of the total adult population has received at least one shot, the Union Health Secretary added

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