Centre writes to five states The Centre had on Tuesday advised Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra and Mizoram to maintain a strict watch and take pre-emptive action, if required, in the areas of concern to control any emerging spread of the coronavirus.

In a letter, Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan advised states/UTs to monitor clusters of new Covid-19 cases and undertake required containment efforts.

Further, the health ministry conveyed that adequate testing as per guidelines is required and further undertake required steps in areas reporting high case positivity rate.

Monitoring of Influenza-like illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) cases in all health facilities on a regular basis for detecting early warning signals of the spread of infection should be focused upon, wrote Bhushan.

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