{"id":329820,"date":"2020-12-28T20:21:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T20:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329820"},"modified":"2020-12-28T20:21:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T20:21:58","slug":"covid-19-mha-extends-guidelines-for-surveillance-containment-and-caution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/covid-19-mha-extends-guidelines-for-surveillance-containment-and-caution\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: MHA extends guidelines for surveillance, containment and caution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/mha-blacklists-960-foreigners-linked-to-tablighi-jamaat\/mha1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-321832\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-321832 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/MHA1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/MHA1.jpg 567w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/MHA1-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/MHA1-535x420.jpg 535w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a>The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued an Order today to extend the earlier\u00a0Guidelines for Surveillance\u00a0to remain in force upto 31.01.2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">While there has been a continuous decline in the active and new COVID-19 cases, there is need to maintain surveillance, containment and caution, keeping in view the surge in cases globally, and emergence of a new variant of the virus in the United Kingdom (UK).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Accordingly, Containment Zones continue to be demarcated carefully; prescribed containment measures strictly followed within these zones; COVID-appropriate behaviour promoted and strictly enforced; and the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) prescribed in respect of various permitted activities followed scrupulously.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Therefore, the focused approach on surveillance, containment and strict observance of the guidelines\/ SOPs issued by MHA and Ministry of Health &amp; Family Welfare (MOHFW), as envisaged in the Guidelines issued on 25.11.2020; need to be enforced strictly by States and UTs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued an Order today to extend the earlier\u00a0Guidelines for Surveillance\u00a0to remain in force upto 31.01.2021. While there has been a continuous decline in the active and new COVID-19 cases, there is need to maintain surveillance, containment and caution, keeping in view the surge in cases globally, and emergence of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":321832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329820"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329821,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329820\/revisions\/329821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}