The Centre warned Maharashtra on Tuesday that the state is witnessing the beginning of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and asked the state government to scale up the pace of vaccination campaign, especially in districts witnessing a sharp increase in infections.
Issuing a letter to Maharashtra’s Chief Secretary Sitaram Kunte, which is based on the assessment of the central team’s visit last week, the Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan has urged the state to bring down its positivity rate and step up contact-tracing.
The team noted the lack of Covid-19-appropriate behaviour and tracking and testing of cases as the prime reason behind the infection surge, apart from the apathy of the district administration to implement already prescribed measures for transmission control.
“Maharashtra is in the beginning of a second wave of COVID-19 pandemic. Efforts to track, test, isolate cases and quarantine contacts are limited there with no adherence to COVID-19…