Centre writes to four States seeing rise in COVID-19 cases
The Hindu
It directs them to take measures such as improving containment measures and ramping up testing and vaccination and emphasising pandemic appropriate behaviour.
The Union Health Ministry has sent letters to Odisha, Assam, Tripura and Sikkim, pointing to a rise in COVID-19 cases despite a decline in the national curve. It directed them to take measures such as improving containment measures and ramping up testing, vaccination and emphasising pandemic appropriate behaviour. The letter, signed by Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan, to the State Chief Secretaries is common in format except for the details on the caseloads. In Odisha, five districts (Baleshwar, Cuttack, Jagatsinghapur, Kendrapara and Khorda) had shown an increase in cases over the previous week. The Odisha Case Fatality Ratio (CFR) was less than 0.46%, but there was an increase in deaths over the past two weeks. Three districts had reported a test positivity greater than 10%.More Related News
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