The Union Health Ministry in a statement said, "Multi-disciplinary Central teams will be deployed in Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Mizoram, Karnataka, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Punjab to monitor the spike in COVID-19 cases."
"These teams shall be stationed in States allotted for 3 to 5 days and will work along with the state health authorities," the health ministry's letter said.
"…A decision has been taken to deploy multi-disciplinary Central teams to 10 identified states some of which are either reporting an increasing number of Omicron & COVID-19 cases or slow vaccination pace…," the Centre said.
The order from the Union Health Ministry came as India on Saturday logged 7,189 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. The tally of cases of the new Omicron variant of coronavirus in the country has risen to 415. As per the Health Ministry, the country`s active caseload stands at 77,032, presently the lowest in 579 days.
Amid growing concerns over rising cases of COVID-19 and its fast-spreading new Omicron variant, several states and UTs have imposed night curfews and similar restrictions to tackle the situation.
Night curfews have been imposed in states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Haryana and eight cities of Gujarat (Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar, Gandhinagar and Junagadh) from 11 pm to 5 am.
