The Centre is considering sending high-level multidisciplinary teams to states and Union Territories that are recording a rise in Covid-19 cases, the Ministry of Health said on Friday.

This comes a day after the government had sent high-level teams to several districts of Rajasthan, Haryana, Gujarat and Manipur to assist their efforts towards strengthening containment, surveillance, testing and efficient clinical management of rising Covid-19 cases in those areas.

Issuing a statement on Friday, the Health Ministry said that the Centre is also contemplating to send such teams to states and UTs experiencing a surge in the number of coronavirus positive cases.

"The Union government has advised the State/UT governments to adopt aggressive and widespread testing to ensure that the missed out and undetected positive COVID-19 cases are promptly identified for timely and effective tracing, containment and subsequent treatment," the statement read.

On Thursday, the ministry said that due to the increase in the number of infections and deaths in Delhi, the NCR regions in Haryana and Rajasthan are also witnessing a spillover effect with the number of positive patients rising everyday.

Dr Randeep Guleria, Director, AIIMS, New Delhi is leading the three-member team to Haryana and Dr V K Paul, Member (Health), Niti Aayog is heading the Rajasthan team.The Health ministry said Dr S K Singh, Director (NCDC) will be leading the team to Gujarat while Dr L Swasticharan, Additional DDG, DHGS is heading the Manipur team.

India's Covid-19 caseload surpassed the 90-lakh mark on Friday with 45,882 new cases, while the recoveries surged to 84.28 lakh pushing the national recovery rate to 93.6 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data.

The total coronavirus cases mounted to 90,04,365 and the death toll climbed to 1,32,162 with the novel coronavirus virus claiming 584 lives in a span of 24 hours in the country, the data updated at 8 am showed.