Central teams will be deployed in Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Odisha, which are seeing a sudden surge in Covid-19 cases, the Union health ministry said on Monday. It asserted that the teams will support the states' efforts towards strengthening containment, surveillance, testing and efficient clinical management of positive cases. Each of the multi-sectoral teams will comprise an epidemiologist and a public health expert. Some of these states are also reporting high mortality, the ministry said.