Directing officials to maintain complete vigilance to contain novel coronavirus infection, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath asked them to increase beds in the Covid hospitals in Lucknow, Meerut, Varanasi, Kanpur Nagar, Jhansi, Ghaziabad and Gorakhpur districts.
The chief minister, who was presiding over an unlock review meeting at his official residence here on Tuesday, also directed officials to continue contact tracing and surveillance systems actively and pay special attention to contact tracing.
“Vigilance is the only defence until an effective medicine or vaccine is available for COVID-19,” he said, adding that the Team-11 was working with coordination and was giving good results and it should be continued.
Directing officials to ensure that the Integrated Command and Control Centre operated actively, the chief minister said that its role in preventing the spread of COVID-19 was very important. He also stressed on random testing for COVID-19 infection.
The chief minister also directed officials to prepare the COVID-19 vaccine cold chain on the lines of the cold chain made for the polio vaccine and said that concrete safety arrangements should be made at the storage centres being set up for the COVID-19 vaccine.