56 people who had come into contact with the positive cases have been quarantined (Archive)
New Delhi:
Lakshadweep, the smallest Union territory in the country, which had not reported any coronavirus cases as of Sunday, has now registered a total of 15 positive cases, prompting the center to dispatch a multidisciplinary team to assist the local administration. in its containment efforts.
According to the Union Health Ministry, a traveler, who had arrived in the Union Territory on January 4 from Kochi on a boat, tested positive on Monday. 31 people who had been in direct contact with the man were tracked down and quarantined; 14 of them tested positive.
So far, 56 people, who had come into contact with Covid-positive people, have been quarantined in the Union Territory.
Alarmed by the increase in cases that occurred at a time when the overall coronavirus figures in the country show a downward trend, the center sent a team made up of experts from the Jawaharlal Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry; National Institute of Virology (NIV) of Pune and Regional Office of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
India, which had reported nearly a lakh of daily cases for weeks last year, recorded just over 10,000 cases on Tuesday. The second most affected country in the world has reported a total of 1.05 million cases so far.
The Health Ministry, highlighting the progress made by the country in its fight against coronavirus on Tuesday, said that the number of active cases has fallen below the 2 lakh mark.
On January 16, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the world’s largest vaccination campaign against the virus in the country. More than 1.77 lakh people were vaccinated against the coronavirus on the fourth day of the inoculation campaign, the Health Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that 6.31 lakh beneficiaries have been vaccinated so far.
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