As COVID Cases Surge In 6 States, Health Ministry Rushes Teams To Monitor Situation; Know All About It

<p><strong>New Delhi: </strong>The Union government on Friday deputed multi-disciplinary teams to 6 states that are reporting the high number of COVID-19 cases to carry out a targeted response and management, and effectively tackled the pandemic, a Union Health Ministry statement informed.</p> <p>The teams will monitor the COVID situation and also suggest remedial actions.</p> <p>Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Manipur are the 6 states where Union Health Ministry will be sending its two-member high-level teams that include a clinician and a public health expert.</p> <p>The statement informed that the teams will visit the states immediately and monitor the overall implementation of COVID-19 management, especially in testing, including surveillance and containment operations; COVID Appropriate Behaviour and its enforcement; availability of hospital beds, sufficient logistics including ambulances, ventilators, medical oxygen etc., and COVID-19 vaccination progress.</p> <p>The Central teams will assess the situation and recommend remedial actions on public health activities to the respective state governments.</p> <p>[tw]https://twitter.com/MoHFW_INDIA/status/1410845775244922880[/tw]</p> <p>As per the statement, the team to Manipur will be led by Dr. L Swasticharan, Additional DDG and Director EMR; team to Arunachal Pradesh will be led by Dr Sanjay Sadhukhan, Professor AIIH&amp;PH; for Tripura Dr RN Sinha; for Kerala Dr Ruchi Jain, Public Health Specialist Gr. II, RoHFW; for Odisha Dr. A Dan, Public Health Specialist AIIH&amp;PH and for Chhattisgarh Dr Dibakar Sahu, Assistant Professor, AIIMS Raipur.</p> <p>The Union Government has been constituting Central teams from time to time to visit various states and UTs in efforts to tackle surges in Coronavirus cases.</p> <p>These teams interact with the state and 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, the statement read.</p> <p>Meanwhile, India&rsquo;s cumulative COVID Vaccination coverage crossed the landmark of 34 crores today. 34,00,76,232 vaccine doses were administered, as per the provisional report till 7 am.&nbsp;42 Lakh (42,64,123) vaccine doses were administered in the last 24 hours.</p> <p>On July 1, out of total 42,64,123 vaccine doses that were administered, 32,80,998 beneficiaries were vaccinated for the first dose and 9,83,125 beneficiaries received their second dose of the COVID vaccine.</p>

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