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Centre to deploy teams in 20 worst coronavirus hit districts, including Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata

Centre to deploy teams in 20 worst coronavirus hit districts, including Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata

| @indiablooms | 03 May 2020, 07:06 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) is sending Central Public Health Teams to 20 worst-hit districts/cities in ten states across the country to support the state governments to implement novel coronavirus containment measures in the affected areas, officials said on Sunday.

Each Central team will comprise two Public Health experts, according to reports.

These teams will be deployed in South-East and Central districts of Delhi, Maharashtra's Mumbai, Pune and Thane, Tamil Nadu's Chennai, West Bengal's Kolkata, Telangana's Hyderabad, Gujarat's Ahmedabad, Surat and Vadodara, Rajasthan's Jaipur and Jodhpur, Madhya Pradesh's Indore and Bhopal, Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow and Agra, and in Kurnool, Guntur and Krishna in Andhra Pradesh, which are the worst-affected by Covid-19, the reports added.

MoHFW officials said that these teams will assist the state health departments in Covid-19 management.

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