New Delhi (NVI): The Union Health Ministry today decided to deploy high level Central teams to four States of Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, and Odisha.
According to the ministry, these states are seeing a sudden surge in the number of COVID-19 cases and some of them are also reporting high mortality.
“The teams will support the State efforts towards strengthening containment, surveillance, testing and efficient clinical management of the positive cases,” the Ministry of Health said in a statement.
They shall also guide the states in effectively managing the challenges related to timely diagnosis and follow up. Each of the multi-sectoral teams will comprise of an epidemiologist and a public health expert, it added.
The ministry further said that most number of deaths are reported in Uttar Pradesh (3,423) while Odisha, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh are reporting 482, 410 and 269 deaths cumulatively.
“Of these four states, Uttar Pradesh has the maximum number of active cases secured at 54,666, followed by Odisha (27,219), Chhattisgarh (13,520) and Jharkhand which has 11,577 active cases,” it added
Moreover, in terms of total COVID-19 cases, Uttar Pradesh has 2,25,632, Odisha (1,00,934), Jharkhand (38,435) and Chhattisgarh has 30,092 cases.
The Central government has been deputing teams from time to time to visit various States to interact with the authorities and get a understanding of the challenges and issues being faced by them so as to strengthen their ongoing activities, the ministry said.
-RJV
