{"id":328805,"date":"2020-11-19T13:49:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T13:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328805"},"modified":"2020-11-19T13:49:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T13:49:02","slug":"covid-19-centre-rushes-high-level-central-teams-to-haryana-rajasthan-gujarat-and-manipur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/covid-19-centre-rushes-high-level-central-teams-to-haryana-rajasthan-gujarat-and-manipur\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Centre rushes High Level Central teams to Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Manipur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324321 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_20200629-223154__01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1013\" height=\"1082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_20200629-223154__01.jpg 1013w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_20200629-223154__01-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_20200629-223154__01-768x820.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_20200629-223154__01-959x1024.jpg 959w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_20200629-223154__01-696x743.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_20200629-223154__01-393x420.jpg 393w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1013px) 100vw, 1013px\" \/>Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has deputed high level Central teams to Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Manipur. With the surge in the daily new cases and the spike in the daily fatalities in UT of Delhi, the spillover effect is being observed in the NCR regions within the states of Haryana and Rajasthan where the number of COVID positive patients is on the rise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">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 whereas Dr S K Singh, Director (NCDC) will be leading the Gujarat team. Dr L Swasticharan, Addl DDG, DHGS is heading the Manipur team, according to a press release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The teams will visit the districts reporting a 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Union Government has been leading the fight against the global pandemic with a \u2018Whole of Government\u2019 and \u2018Whole of Society\u2019 approach under the umbrella strategy of \u2018Cooperative Federalism\u2019. As an ongoing effort 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, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0These 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, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has deputed high level Central teams to Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Manipur. With the surge in the daily new cases and the spike in the daily fatalities in UT of Delhi, the spillover effect is being observed in the NCR regions within the states of Haryana and Rajasthan where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12470,6340],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328806,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328805\/revisions\/328806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}