India logged 2,151 new Covid-19 cases within 24 hours amid conern cover a fresh spike in infections in the country, according to Union health ministry data updated Wednesday. The Covid-related death toll has increased to 5,30,848, the data updated at 8 am stated

The rise in Covid cases has prompted officials to review the preparedness status, with Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan chairing a high-level meeting on Monday with States and UTs through a Video Conference. Dr V K Paul, Member (Health), NITI Aayog and Dr Rajiv Bahl, Secretary, Dept. of Health Research were also present in the review meeting. He stressed ramping up of testing with a higher proportion of RT-PCR and whole genome sequencing of positive samples.