Registering 55,342 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday.
The Health Ministry raised India’s confirmed total to more than 7.17 million cases on Tuesday but said the country was showing a trend of declining daily cases over the last five weeks.According to data shared by the Health Ministry, the average number of daily cases from Sept 9-15 was 92,830. The average has steadily declined since then, falling to under 73,000 per day over the last week.
Meanwhile, India’s testing rate has remained constant, with almost 1.1. million tests being carried out every day. India, a country of nearly 1.4 billion people, is second in the world in total cases, behind only the US, which has confirmed over 7.8 million infections.Authorities in the central indian state of Madhya Pradesh have ordered the closure of schools from class one to class eight until Nov 15 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, officials said Tuesday.
The order has been issued by the state's school education department saying it will be compulsory for all schools to follow the standard operating procedure and guidelines on health and safety."Regular classes will not be conducted and online reading and learning activities will continue as before," officials said.
The federal government has allowed all states to reopen schools outside the containment zone from Oct. 15 under the relaxation of guidelines . However, it has given the liberty to take the final decision on reopening schools to the states.Madhya Pradesh has reported 148,298 Covid-19 cases including 2,645 deaths.
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