Health Ministry has asked officials of 10 states across 38 districts which are witnessing a surge in COVID19 cases to conduct house-to-house surveys, and surveillance to contain the infection and reduce mortality.
The 38 districts are from Maharashtra, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Haryana, Gujarat, J&K, Karnataka, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh.
Centre has also stressed on efficient survey teams, ambulance management, efficient tracing of patients and bed management and clinical management of the hospitalised cases through rotational 24X7 teams.
The country now has 2,66,598 confirmed cases of which 7,471 have died.