Centre teams rushed to UP, Punjab, Himachal for Covid management

New Delhi, Nov 22 : The Central government on Sunday sent high-level teams to Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, and Himachal Pradesh to support these states in their Covid-19 response and management.
These states have been either reporting a rise in the number of active cases or demonstrating a rise in the daily new cases.
These three-member teams will visit the districts reporting high number of Covid cases and support the state efforts towards strengthening containment, surveillance, testing, infection prevention and control measures, and efficient clinical management of the positive cases, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
The Central teams shall also guide the states in effectively managing the challenges related to timely diagnosis and follow-up.
Earlier, the Centre sent five high-level teams to Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Manipur, and Chhattisgarh.
India’s present active caseload (4,40,962) has further declined to 4.85 per cent of the total positive cases, and has been sustained below the 5 per cent mark. The recovery rate has improved to 93.69 per cent on Sunday as the country registered 43,493 new recoveries in the last 24 hours taking the total recovered cases to 85,21,617.