Central Team to Visit Maharashtra, Gujarat & Telangana to Bolster Coronavirus Management Efforts

A central team, led by Joint Secretary in the Health Ministry Lav Agarwal, will visit Gujarat, Maharashtra and Telangana between June 26 and 29 to coordinate with the state officials in strengthening COVID-19 management efforts in those areas, the ministry said on Thursday.

As indicated by authorities, the group will likewise survey the measures embraced by the states for regulation of COVID-19. 

Maharashtra has detailed the most noteworthy number of cases at 1,42,900. Gujarat has recorded 28,943 occasions of the viral contamination while Telangana has so far announced 10,331 cases, as indicated by wellbeing service information. 

India enlisted its most exceedingly terrible single-day increment in COVID-19 cases on



Thursday, recording more than 16,000 coronavirus contaminations, to push the general count to 4.73 lakh as the quantity of fatalities additionally hopped by 418, the Union Health Ministry said.

The ministry said there are 33.39 COVID-19 cases in India for every one lakh population, against the global average of 114.67. Also, the country has 1.06 deaths per lakh population, which is amongst the lowest in the world and the global average is 6.24.

Following efforts to ramp up facilities across the nation, there are in total 1,007 diagnostic labs, of which 734 are in the government sector and 273 private. From limited COVID-19 tests in January, a cumulative total of 75,60,782 samples have been tested up to June 24 with 2,07,871 samples being tested on Wednesday.