Centre deploys teams to Maharashtra, Punjab for Covid manage
Centre deploys teams to Maharashtra, Punjab for Covid manage
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NEW DELHI: The Central government on Saturday rushed high-level multi-disciplinary public health teams to Maharashtra and Punjab in the light of surge in the number of new coronavirus cases being consistently reported by these states.

They are being sent to assist the state health departments in Covid-19 surveillance, control and containment measures. The high-level team to Maharashtra will be led by P. Ravindran, Senior Chief Medical Officer of Health Ministry's Disaster Management Cell, said a Health Ministry statement.

The Central government has been leading the fight against the Covid pandemic with a 'Whole of Government' and 'Whole of Society' approach under the umbrella strategy of 'Cooperative Federalism', the statement said.

The public health team to Punjab will be led by S.K. Singh, Director, National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), New Delhi.

The teams will ascertain reasons for the surge of the pandemic which so far has infected 1,11,92,088 people that included 18,327 new coronavirus cases registered in the last 24 hours.

The teams will also brief the Chief Secretaries or Secretaries (Health) of the states concerned on their observations and remedial measures to be undertaken by the state health authorities.

Currently, the total active cases in Maharashtra are noted at 90,055, including 3,696 new cases registered in last 24 hours.

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