Amid the Covid-19 fear in the country, the government has once again resumed the practice of random Covid tests at crowded places such as airports, railway stations, metro stations and touristy places. While collecting tourist samples during a screening at the Taj Mahal, one of them tested positive but has gone missing.

Dr Arun Kumar Srivastava, Chief Medical Officer, said that a tourist from Argentina who had come to visit the Taj Mahal and tested positive for Covid-19 on December 26 has gone missing. Srivastava said that after testing positive in the antigen test, the foreign tourist was not allowed to enter the monument premises.

The health officials said the man went missing soon after he was informed about it by the authorities. He also provided the wrong phone number and the name of the hotel. Srivastava stated that the foreign tourist is being tracked down with the assistance of local authorities, police, and the ASI. The police are also looking for him at the nearby hotels to get the details of the missing man.

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Meanwhile, screening at the Taj Mahal and other monuments has ramped up. More than 30,000 visitors visited the Taj Mahal on Wednesday and were only allowed to enter the monument premises after screening at the Eastern and Western Gates.

Earlier last week, a 40-year-old man, who returned to Agra from China, tested positive for Covid-19 following which he was isolated at his home.

Anil Satsangi, the District Health Information Officer of Agra, said that the health department has already started the tests to prevent the spread of infection. As the alert is on, the tests have now been made mandatory for all visitors.

Meanwhile, India reported 268 new Covid-19 cases today. As per the Health Ministry data, the number of active Covid-19 cases in the country has increased to 3,552.

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After witnessing a downfall in Covid cases for the past few months, the health ministry on Thursday informed that India has witnessed a sudden spike of fresh Coronavirus cases under which the country reported more than 19,892 cases in the past 24 hours.

This comes a day after when the country reported a sharp rise in Covid cases by 17,135 on August 3. Talking about the fresh cases and death tally on Tuesday, the health ministry informed that the country reported 13,734 coronavirus cases with 34 infection-related deaths. The country’s active cases now reached 136,478.

As per the ministry of health and family welfare, the country reported a 98.50 percent of recovery rate, under which a total of 43,424,029 people have won the battle against Covid injection.

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Meanwhile, a total of 38,20,676 people have been jabbed with the Covid vaccine in the last 24 hours, which took India’s vaccination tally to 2,05,22,51,408. The government also introduced a nationwide 75-day vaccination drive, under which all adults that fall in the age group of 18-75 years are eligible for free precaution doses starting from July 15 in all the government hospitals.

Regarding the same, the centre also released data on July 26 that claims that only 11% of the nearly 69 crore eligible beneficiaries have taken the Covid vaccination doses.

India was one of the countries that faced the worst impact of Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021. As per the official data, India’s covid cases on August 7, 2020, crossed the mark of 20, the 30 lakh mark on August 23, 2020, the 40 lakh mark on September 5, 2020, the 50 lakh mark on September 16, 2020, the 60 lakh mark on September 28, 2020, the 70 lakh mark on October 11, 2020, the 80 lakh mark on October 29, 2020, the 90 lakh mark on November 20, 2020, and the one crore mark on December 19, 2020.

Experts say that after annylsing the current Covid situation in the country, there are high chances that India is likely to witness the fourth wave very soon.

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