Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba chaired a high-level review meeting with Chief Secretaries, DG Police and Health Secretaries of all States/UTs, with focus on 11 States/UTs reporting very high rise in daily cases and daily mortality because of COVID-19 in the last two weeks: GoI
11 States/UTs were categorised as “States of grave concern” due to high & rising daily case and higher daily deaths. These have contributed 90% of COVID cases (as on 31st March) and 90.5% of deaths (as on 31st March) in last 14 days: Government of India
The 11 States/UTs have crossed/or close to crossing their early reported peaks during last year. The situation particularly worrying in Maharashtra. They were advised to take up immediate and high effective measures to ensure containment of active cases and daily deaths: GoI
After review of measures taken by States/UTs, Cabinet Secy reiterated necessity of meticulous and hard work regarding stringent enforcement of containment & surveillance measures, in conjunction with ramping up vaccination & strict enforcement of COVID appropriate behaviour: GoI
Tier 2&3 cities along with peri-urban areas have recorded recent high rise in COVID cases;spread of infection from these areas to rural areas with weak health infrastructure would overwhelm local administration-this was highlighted during Cabinet Secy's review meet on COVID: GoI
Cabinet Secretary exhorted Chief Secretaries to galvanize State administration & to use all resources at their disposal to tackle recent surge of COVID. The need to expand the efforts to departments other than the Health Department through a 'Whole of Government' approach: GoI
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