New Delhi:
The centre will send teams to 10 states “which are either reporting an increasing number of Omicron and COVID-19 cases or slow vaccination pace”, the Union Health Ministry has said.
According to the order issued yesterday, these states are Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Bengal, Mizoram, Karnataka, Bihar, Jharkhand and Punjab.
Also on the list are Punjab and Uttar Pradesh – both are due to hold elections in two months’ time. UP’s Allahabad High Court has already flagged the Omicron threat, and on Thursday asked the Election Commission and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to consider postponing polls by one or two months.
Sources in the top poll body told NDTV today that a meeting with Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan to discuss Covid in UP and other poll-bound states has been scheduled for Monday.
