New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has deployed high level teams to 15 States/UTs, including Odisha, with more than 50 districts/municipal bodies that are witnessing high case loads and high spurt of COVID-19 cases.
These multi-disciplinary Central teams are assisting the state governments by providing technical support for containment and facilitate management of COVID-19 outbreak, the ministry said in a release on Tuesday.
Of these, five teams are deployed in five areas in Odisha withhigh case loads of coronavirus. The release, however, didn’t specify the particular areas.
The other States/UTs where the teams are deployed are Maharashtra (7 districts/municipalities), Telangana (4), Tamil Nadu (7), Rajasthan (5), Assam (6), Haryana (4), Gujarat (3), Karnataka (4), Uttarakhand (3), Madhya Pradesh (5), West Bengal (3), Delhi (3), Bihar (4) and Uttar Pradesh (4).
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