Central teams to visit 10 states reporting high Omicron cases

In view of concerns over the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus, the Centre has decided to send special multi-disciplinary teams to 10 states, which are either reporting a high number of infections from the new strain or have a low pace of the vaccination.

These states will be Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Mizoram, Karnataka, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Punjab.

The Union ministry of health and family welfare said in a letter that the Central teams shall be in these 10 states for 3 to 5 days and will work with state health teams to check contact tracing, testing, ensure covid protocols among other things.

The teams will also be responsible for the enforcement of Covid-appropriate behaviour, availability of hospital beds, sufficient logistics including ambulances, ventilators, medical oxygen and Covid-19 vaccination progress in the states.

The state-level central teams will assess the situation, suggest remedial actions, and submit a report every evening by 7pm on the public health activities being undertaken to both the central and state government.

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