NEW DELHI, July 2 (Xinhua) -- India's federal government on Friday sent high-level expert teams to states that saw a surge in COVID-19 cases in a bid to help them improve response and management in tackling the pandemic.
To help strengthen efforts by various state governments in COVID-19 management, the federal health ministry said in a statement, "The central government has been deputing central teams from time to time to visit various states. These teams interact with the state 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 ministry said teams were rushed to Kerala, Tripura, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Manipur in view of the increased number of COVID-19 cases being reported by these states.
"The two-member high-level team to these states consists of a clinician and a public health expert. 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-19 appropriate behaviour and its enforcement, availability of hospital beds, sufficient logistics including ambulances, ventilators, medical oxygen etc., and COVID-19 vaccination progress," the ministry said.
Meanwhile, the expert teams will assess the local pandemic situation and suggest remedial actions on public health to the state governments, it said.
On Friday morning the ministry said the total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 recorded in the South Asian country has reached 30,458,251 with 400,312 deaths. Enditem
