The Centre on Wednesday mentioned it can ship a workforce of public well being consultants to Kerala to assist the state’s Covid-19 administration.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare mentioned the choice to ship a workforce to Kerala got here after the state logged 35,038 new instances during the last seven days.
“The Union Government has deployed a high level Central Team headed by Dr S K Singh, Director, National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to Kerala. The team will reach the State day after tomorrow,” the Health Ministry mentioned in an announcement.
“The team will review the public health interventions in management of Covid-19 by the State Government of Kerala and support the State health authorities in these measures,”
The ministry mentioned Kerala has reported 5,615 instances within the final 24 hours, whereas in the identical time interval, Maharashtra recorded 3,160 instances and Chhattisgarh registered 1,021 instances.
However it additionally identified that Kerala has additionally recorded the utmost variety of recoveries over the previous 24 hours at 4,922. “Maharashtra has registered another 2,828 daily recoveries while Chhattisgarh has reported 1,651 new recoveries in the past 24 hours,” the ministry mentioned.
The ministry additionally confirmed that the entire variety of folks contaminated with the brand new coronavirus pressure first reported within the UK has now reached 71.
