A Central team report has said that Maharashtra, which is witnessing a surge in the Covid-19 cases, is at the beginning of the second wave of coronavirus.
Maharashtra reported 15,051 new coronavirus cases on March 15, 2021. People swarm Dadar Market in Mumbai on March 15, 2021 | Photo Credit: ANI
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Mumbai city reported 1,713 new cases of coronavirus cases on March 15
Night curfews don’t work: Centre to Maharashtra govt on rising COVID cases
Mumbai: Amid rising coronavirus cases, the Centre has asked the Maharashtra government to focus on strict and effective containment strategy as the measures such as night curfews, weekend lockdowns, etc. have very limited impact on containing or suppressing the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a strong-worded letter, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan warned the Uddhav Thackeray-led government that Maharashtra is “in the beginning of a second wave of Covid”, and there was there were glaring gaps like from limited contact tracing to lack of effort to map cases and contacts.
Updated Mar 16, 2021 | 12:16 IST
Maharashtra is at the beginning of second wave of Covid-19 pandemic. There is very limited active effort to track, test, isolate cases and quarantine contacts, the Central team of Union Health Ministry said. Representational Image
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The Central team noted that the absence of rigorous tracing, testing and containment is leading to sustained community transmission
The team noted that measures such as lockdown and night curfew have very limited impact on suppressing the transmission
Mumbai: Taking a strong exception of the laxity shown by district authorities in Maharashtra, the Central team of the Union Health Ministry has warned that the state is seeing the second wave of COVID-19.
With the number of Covid patients rising at a rapid pace and the state bracing for a second wave of the pandemic, the Maharashtra Government is ramping up its measures to enforce social distancing and