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High-level Central teams rushed to Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Manipur

New Delhi, Nov 19 (UNI) The Health and Family Welfare Ministry has deputed high-level Central teams to Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Manipur.
With the surge in daily new cases in UT of Delhi, the spillover effect is being observed in the National Capital Region within the states of Haryana and Rajasthan where the number of Covid positive patients is on the rise.
Dr Randeep Guleria, Director, AIIMS New Delhi, is leading the three-member team bound for Harayana and Dr V K Paul, Member (Health), Niti Aayog is heading the Rajasthan team. Dr S K Singh, Director (NCDC), will be leading the Gujarat team and Dr L Swasticharan, Addl DDG, DHGS is heading the Manipur team, an official release here said.
The teams will visit the districts seeing a Covid outbreak and support the state's efforts towards strengthening containment, surveillance, testing, infection prevention and control measures, and efficient clinical management of the positive cases.
The Central teams shall also guide in effectively managing the challenges related to timely diagnosis and follow-up.
To strengthen efforts of various state/UT Governments for Covid management, the Central Government has been deputing Central teams from time to time to visit various states/UTs. These teams interact with the state/UT authorities and get a first-hand understanding of the challenges and issues being faced by them so as to strengthen their ongoing activities and remove bottlenecks, if any.
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