Centre rushes a high-level team to Maharashtra after Zika virus case

The three-member Central team consists of a public health expert, a gynaecologist and an entomologist.

New Delhi: The Centre on Monday (August 2, 2021) rushed a high-level team to Maharashtra after the state reported its first Zika virus case. The Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare rushed a multidisciplinary team to monitor the situation and support the state government in the management of Zika cases.  A 50-year-old woman from Belsar village in Purandar tehsil (Pune) was diagnosed with the Zika virus infection on July 30.  The three-member Central team consists of a public health expert from the office of Regional Director (Pune), a gynaecologist from Lady Hardinge Medical College (Delhi) and an entomologist from the National Institute of Malaria Research (NIMR), ICMR (Delhi).