Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan, in a letter, has given instructions to 6 states, together with Maharashtra, which have seen an increase within the variety of covid instances prior to now few weeks by stepping up surveillance, testing, and monitoring vaccinations. He additionally directed that pre-emptive measures needs to be taken in areas of concern to regulate rising instances of an infection.

New Delhi: The central authorities has directed six states to look at the growing covid-19 scenario on the micro stage and surveillance, take a look at, and monitor new and rising covid clusters.

Over the previous few weeks, India has seen an increase in covid-19 instances, with a complete of three thousand plus instances within the week that ended 15 March.

Maharashtra has reported an increase in weekly cases from 355 to 668 with a positivity rate of 1.92 per cent.

“It is advised that State should examine the situation of COVID-19 at the micro level (district and sub-districts) and maintain focus on the implementation of necessary measures for prompt and effective management of Covid-19 duly ensuring effective compliance with various advisories issued by this Ministry. The five-fold strategy, i.e., Test-Track Treat-Vaccination should be followed with a continued focus on adequate &proactive testing as per guidelines, monitoring new and emerging clusters of new Covid-19 cases along with monitoring the trend of Influenza-like illness (ILI) & SARI cases in al health facilities or through dedicated fever clinics regularly for detecting early warning signals of the spread of infection,” Bhushan stated in a letter.

The ministry has additionally given instructions to the states to proceed genomic sequencing for prescribed samples of worldwide passengers, assortment of samples from sentinel websites, and native clusters of instances, improve the tempo for administration of booster pictures for individuals who are eligible beneficiaries, and be certain that states should keep a strict vigil in any areas of concern to regulate the unfold of an infection.

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