Centre Asks States To Implement Containment Measures Till May 31, Says No Nationwide Lockdown
Mumbai: Amid the rise in Covid19 cases, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs on Thursday issued fresh guidelines to all the states and UTs and asked them to strictly implement containment measures across districts with a high number of COVID19 cases to check the spread of the viral disease.
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“In an order issued today, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) directed all States and Union Territories (UTs) to consider the containment measures, as had been conveyed in the advisory of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), for immediate implementation based on the assessment of the situation.”
“It also asked the States and UTs to implement the necessary containment measures, under the relevant provisions of the Disaster Management (DM) Act, 2005,” MHA said in its guidelines.
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However, the fresh guidelines for COVID19 management came into existence due to a rise in the number of cases and a shortage of beds, ICUs and oxygen in some parts of the country.
The States should identify the districts where either the COVID positivity rate was more than 10 per cent or the bed occupancy was over 60 per cent in the last week. The districts fulfilling any of the above two criteria should be considered for intensive and local containment measures said MHA in the Guidelines.
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As per the Health Ministry, the implementation framework for community containment and large containment areas has also been enclosed with the MHA order.
Meanwhile, India reported 3.86 lakh new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours. With this, the total caseload rose to over 1.87 crores. Out of the total cases, over 31 lakh cases are currently active while over 1.53 crore people have recovered after testing positive. Meanwhile, with 3,498 deaths, the death toll surged to 2.08 lakh.
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