Cabinet Secretary chairs high level meeting with Chief Secretaries of various States, UTs

Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba yesterday chaired a high level meeting with Chief Secretaries of various States and Union Territories to take stock of public health response to COVID-19 pandemic during the ongoing season of festivities.

 

The Cabinet Secretary applauded the efforts of UT Administration to augment the medical infrastructure including isolation beds with oxygen support, ICU beds, ventilators and oxygen production/ supply capacity.

 

J&K Chief Secretary B.V. R. Subrahmanyam informed that to maintain low fatality rate, strategic efforts are in place for timely hospitalization of vulnerable patients especially children,



old-age patients with co-morbidity. He said that COVID trajectory is being closely monitored with special focus on spread of infection through travellers, primary and secondary contacts, especially after resumption of religious pilgrimage.

 

He further said that J&K is still conducting universal testing of all visitors travelling by air, road and railways. Regarding targeted testing in vulnerable clusters, the UT Administration has recently launched a sweeping strategy, wherein universal testing is carried out to identify patients and the process is repeated regularly to sweep clean the area.