The Union Health Ministry has announced to deploy high-level central teams to four states, worst affected by the Covid-19. These four states are Odidha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh.
All these states have reported sudden spike in the number of new Covid-19 cases.
Each of the multi-sectoral teams will consist of an epidemiologist and a public health expert.
The states will be assisted by the highly specialised team in strengthening containment, surveillance, testing, and effective clinical management of positive cases to prevent deaths.
Of these four states, UP has the most number of active cases pegged at 54,666, followed by Odisha (27,219), Chhattisgarh (13,520) and Jharkhand which has 11,577 active cases. In terms of cumulative cases till date, UP has 2,25,632, Odisha (1,00,934), Jharkhand (38,435) and Chhattisgarh with 30,092 cases.
Uttar Pradesh also reported the most number of deaths among these states at 3423 while Odisha, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh reported 482, 410 and 269 deaths respectively.
“The teams will support the states’ efforts towards strengthening containment, surveillance, testing and efficient clinical management of positive cases,” the health ministry said.
As an ongoing effort, the Central Government has been deploying central teams from time to time to states. Members of these teams visit interact with the states authorities. They will try to get a first-hand understanding of the challenges and issues being faced by them so as to strengthen their ongoing activities and remove bottlenecks.
