Centre sends public health teams to 20 worst-affected districts to help states in virus containment

NEW DELHI: The Centre has decided to deploy twenty central public health teams in as many affected districts with maximum number of Covid-19 positive cases to assist states in implementation of containment strategy to combat the infectious disease.
The twenty districts – in nine states and in Delhi – are Mumbai, Thane, Pune in Maharashtra; Bhopal, Indore in Madhya Pradesh; Ahmedabad, Surat and Vadodara in Gujarat; South East and Central Districts in Delhi; Jaipur and Jodhpur in Rajasthan; Agra and Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh; Hyderabad in Telangana; Chennai in Tamil Nadu; Kolkata in West Bengal; and Kurnool, Guntur and Krishna in Andhra Pradesh.
These teams are comprising of experts from National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), AIIMS, JIPMER and All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, among others. The teams will submit reports to additional chief secretary, principal secretary, secretary (health) of respective states detailing their observations, areas for improvement and recommendations, according to an office memorandum issued on May 2.
The regional directors under the ministry of health in these nine states and one Union Territory will coordinate the deployment of these teams with the state health authorities.
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