{"id":328856,"date":"2020-11-22T07:23:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T07:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328856"},"modified":"2020-11-22T07:23:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T07:23:38","slug":"centre-rushes-high-level-teams-to-himachal-punjab-and-up-to-support-states-in-covid-response-and-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/centre-rushes-high-level-teams-to-himachal-punjab-and-up-to-support-states-in-covid-response-and-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre rushes high level teams to Himachal, Punjab and UP to support states in COVID response and management"},"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-319632 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/virus-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/virus-1.jpg 503w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/virus-1-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/virus-1-434x420.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/>The Union Government has decided to depute high level Central Teams to Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to support the States in COVID response and management. These States have been either reporting a rise in the number of active cases i.e. those who are hospitalized or are in home isolation under medical supervision or demonstrating a rise in the daily new cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">These three-member 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. The Central teams shall also guide in effectively managing the challenges related to timely diagnosis and follow up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier the Union Government has sent the high-level teams to Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Manipur, and Chhattisgarh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India\u2019s present active caseload (4,40,962)\u00a0has further declined to\u00a04.85%\u00a0of the total Positive Cases and has been sustained below the 5% mark. The Recovery Rate has improved to\u00a093.69%\u00a0today as the country registered\u00a043,493\u00a0new recoveries in the last 24 hours taking the total recovered cases to\u00a085,21,617, according to the Health Ministry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The gap between Recovered cases and Active cases is steadily increasing and presently stands at\u00a080,80,655. 26 States\/UTs have less than 20,000 active cases, as on date. 7 States\/UTs have active cases between 20,000 and 50,000 whereas Maharashtra and Kerala are reporting more than 50,000 caseload. 77.68%\u00a0of the new recovered cases is contributed by ten States\/UTs, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi saw 6,963 persons recovering from COVID. Kerala and Maharashtra reported 6,719 and 4,088 new recoveries respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ten States\/UTs have contributed\u00a076.81%of the new cases. In the last 24 hours,\u00a045,209\u00a0persons were found to be infected with COVID.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi reported 5,879 cases in the last 24 hours. Kerala recorded 5,772 new cases while Maharashtra reported 5,760 daily cases yesterday. 15 States and UTs are reporting less than the national average of cases per million population, it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">76.45%\u00a0of the\u00a0501\u00a0case fatalities that have been reported in the past 24 hours are from Ten States\/UTs. 22.16%\u00a0of new fatalities reported are from Delhi which reported 111 deaths. Maharashtra saw a fatality count of 62 while West Bengal reported another 53, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Government has decided to depute high level Central Teams to Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to support the States in COVID response and management. These States have been either reporting a rise in the number of active cases i.e. those who are hospitalized or are in home isolation under medical supervision or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[449,12470],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328856"}],"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=328856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328857,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328856\/revisions\/328857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}