COVID-19: Centre ticks-off Maharashtra over inadequate contact-tracing efforts, urges stricter containment strategies
The Hindu
Expressing concern over Maharashtra’s relentlessly soaring COVID-19 cases, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan has written to the State government, ticking-off the administration for inadequate contact-tracing efforts while urging that it must focus on strict and effective containment strategies and plan for a worst-case scenario.
In a letter to Maharashtra Chief Secretary Sitaram Kunte based on a Central team report, Mr. Bhushan, while cautioning that the State was in the throes of “a second wave” of the pandemic, has stated that the measures like weekend lockdowns and night curfews (currently being deployed by the State government), had a “very limited impact on containing or suppressing the transmission.” Also read | Maharashtra reports 15,051 new COVID-19 cases, 48 deaths
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