Taking serious cognisance of the increased number of Covid-19 positive cases during the week ending on June 3, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Friday asked the Maharashtra government to maintain strict vigil and take pre-emptive action to control the spread of infection.
On a day when the new Covid-19 cases crossed the 1,000 mark in the state for the third consecutive day, Secretary of Health and Family Welfare Rajesh Bhushan advised the state government to continue to adopt a five-fold strategy for prompt and effective management of Covid-19.
The five-fold strategy involved aspects like Covid-19 Appropriate Behaviour, Monitoring Clusters of new Covid-19 cases, adequate testing as per guidelines, monitoring Influenza-like cases in all health facilities and genomic sequencing for prescribed samples of international
passengers, collection of sample from sentinel sites ( identified health facilities), and local clusters of cases.
Among other things, the Centre has taken serious note of the upsurge in cases the past one week ending on June 3.