Central teams being deployed to districts with highest number of COVID19 cases

Newsbasket Desk May 3, 2020

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New Delhi: As many as 20 Central Public Health Teams from the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare have been formed and are being sent to the 20 districts that are reporting the maximum number of COVID-19 cases in the country.

These districts include Mumbai (Maharashtra), Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Delhi (South East), Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Pune (Maharashtra), Jaipur (Rajasthan), Thane (Maharashtra), Surat (Gujarat), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Hyderabad (Telangana), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Jodhpur (Rajasthan), Delhi (Central), Agra (Uttar Pradesh), Kolkata (West Bengal), Kurnool (Andhra Pradesh), Vadodara (Gujarat), Guntur (Andhra Pradesh), Krishna (Andhra Pradesh), and Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh).

These teams will support the States in implementation of containment measures for COVID-19 in the affected areas within these districts/cities, and these teams will assist the State Governments.