Team News Riveting
New Delhi, October 16
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has deputed high level Central teams to Kerala, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal where the number of new COVID cases has surged in the recent days.
Each team comprises a Joint Secretary (nodal officer for the respective State), one public health expert to look after the public health aspects, one clinician to look after infection prevention practices, clinical management protocol being followed by the State.
The teams will support the State efforts towards strengthening containment, surveillance, testing, infection prevention and control measures, and efficient clinical management of the positive cases. The Central teams shall also guide in effectively managing the challenges related to timely diagnosis and follow up.
The total cases in Kerala are 3,17,929 that constitute 4.3 per cent of the total cases. Similarly, Karnataka is reporting 7,43,848 total cases accounting for 10.1 per cent of the national figure.
Rajasthan has registered 1,67,279 total cases, 2.3 per cent of the national figure while West Bengal shared 4.2 per cent recording 3,09,417 cases. Chhattisgarh is reporting 1,53,515 total cases with a share of 2.1 per cent to the national figure.
As an ongoing effort to provide assistance to various State/UT Governments for COVID management, the Central Government has been deputing teams from time to time to visit various States/UTs.
These teams interact with the State/UT authorities and get a first hand understanding of the challenges and issues being faced by them so as to strengthen their ongoing activities and remove bottlenecks, if any.
