Ensure strict containment actions in neighborhoods with a positivity rate greater than 10%: Center in the States: The Tribune India
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New Delhi, June 30
The Center wrote to 14 states and Union Territories, including Rajasthan, Tripura, Assam, West Bengal and Kerala, asking them to ensure strict enforcement of containment measures in districts where the rate of Covid-19 positivity was recorded above 10% between June 21-27.
With the recent sustained downward trend in Covid-19 cases across the country, it is imperative to maintain strict monitoring of the situation with targeted actions at the district and sub-district levels, the Ministry of Health said. Union health in the letter.
“Therefore, the permitted flexibilities and permitted statewide activities must be carried out in a calibrated and prudent manner,” the letter from Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said on June 29.
The letter was written in Rajasthan, Manipur, Sikkim, Tripura, West Bengal, Pondicherry, Odisha, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Assam.
To facilitate objective, transparent and epidemiologically sound decision-making, a general framework based on test positivity rate and bed occupancy rate was provided to states in the letter from the Ministry of Health of April 25, 2021, Bhushan said, adding that this framework was also underlined by the Home Office’s (MHA) order of April 29 for execution by all states.
Once again, the Department of Health, in its letter of June 28, highlighted the implementation of gradual restriction / relaxation measures and continued to focus on the fivefold strategy of Test, Track, Treat, Covid Appropriate Behavior. and Vaccination.
“You are therefore requested to ensure strict application of the above interventions to control transmission and lower the positivity rate in these districts.
“Elements of the district action plan, namely mapping of cases, review of indicators by district and block, focusing on effective surveillance and rapid hospitalization / isolation of positive cases, an operations center emergency and a 24-hour response command system and strict adherence to SOPs in The containment zone strategy must also be applied comprehensively and strictly, â€Bhushan said in the letter.
Some of the districts that observed a positivity rate of over 10 percent during the week of June 21-27 are Bharatpur, Rajsamand, Baran, Chittorgarh, Sikar, Dholpur in Rajasthan; Imphal West and Tengnoupal in Manipur; Eastern District, Western District and Southern District in Sikkim; Unakoti and Dhalai in Tripura; Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal; the Mah̩ district in Pondicherry; Bhadrak, Bhaleshwar to Odisha; Palakkad, Malappuram, Kollam, Thrissur and Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala; and Marigaon and Nalbari in Assam. РPTI
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