Combating COVID-19: Health Ministry to deploy teams in 15 districts of 9 States

New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has decided to deploy the Central public health teams to the States in order to assist the Health Departments in containing the further spread of COVID-19.

The teams are to be deployed in 15 selected districts of nine States. The districts include Mumbai, Pune and Thane in Maharashtra, Ahmedabad and Surat in Gujarat, Southeast and Central parts of Delhi.

In addition to those districts, teams will also be deployed in Bhopal and Indore in Madhya Pradesh, Jaipur and Jodhpur in Rajasthan, Chennai in Tamil Nadu, Hyderabad in Telangana, Agra in Uttar Pradesh and Kolkata in West Bengal.

According to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the total number of positive COVID-19 cases across the country are 40,263, including 28,070 active cases.

So far, 10,886 patients have either been cured or discharged while 1,306 deaths have been reported in the country.