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Government of India
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
22-March-2020 18:51 IST
Cabinet Secretary and PS to Hon. Prime Minister review status, management and containment of COVID-19

Cabinet Secretary and the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister reviewed the status, actions taken and preparedness regarding management and containment of COVID-19 in a high level with Chief Secretaries of States through a video conference, here today. The increase in the number of confirmed cases during the last few days was discussed. The Central Government impressed upon the States the need for urgent and effective interventions. 

After detailed discussions, the following decisions were taken:

  1. State Governments will issue orders allowing only essential services to operate in districts with confirmed COVID-19 cases. The focus should be on closure of all activities except essential services such as hospitals, telecom, medicine shops, provision stores etc.
  2. Establishments/factories engaged in manufacturing and distribution of essential commodities like medicines, vaccines, sanitizers, masks, medical devices, their ancillaries and support services etc., should be exempt from these restrictions.
  3. State Governments may expand the list depending on their assessment of the situation.
  4. All train services suspended till 31st March 2020 including sub urban rail services.
  5. Good trains may continue to operate for facilitating availability of essential commodities.
  6. All metro rail services suspended till 31st March 2020.
  7. Interstate passenger transport also to be suspended till 31st Mar 2020.
  8. Transport services may operate at mere skeletal level
  9. These measures are temporary but extremely vital to break the chain of transmission.
  10. States were also requested to ensure that while such measures are being taken, necessary steps to minimize discomfort to the poor and disadvantaged sections of the society may be ensured.
  11. States to request industries, establishments etc., to allow their employees to work from home and provide remuneration to them during this period.
  12. Central Government has already asked Labour Ministry and Ministry of Corporate Affairs to issue necessary instructions to this effect.
  13. States were further asked to ramp up the readiness to manage the positive cases in health facilities.
  14. States to assess the availability of medical services including quarantine and scale them up to meet all possible contingencies.
  15. States were asked to have earmarked facilities fully dedicated to manage the COVID-19 cases only.
  16. Each State was requested to identify and ensure that such hospitals are equipped to manage the COVID 19 cases.

 

Following is the list of the districts which have reported confirmed COVID-19 cases:

 

State

 

District

 

Andhra Pradesh

Prakasam

Vijaywada

Vizag

Chandigarh

Chandigarh

Chhattisgarh

Raipur

 

 

 

 

Delhi

Central

East Delhi

North Delhi

North West Delhi

North East Delhi

South Delhi

West Delhi

 

 

 

Gujrat

Kutchh

Rajkot

Gandhinagar

Surat

Vadodara

Ahmedabad

 

 

 

Haryana

Faridabad

Sonepat

Panchkula

Panipat

Gurugram

Himachal Pradesh

Kangra

 

UT of J&K

Srinagar

Jammu

 

 

 

Karnataka

Bangalore

Chikkaballapura

Mysore

Kodagu

Kalaburgi

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kerala

Alappuzha

Ernakulam

Iduki

Kannur

Kasargod

Kottayam

Mallapuram

Pathanamthitta

Thiruvanthpuram

Thrissur

 

UT of Ladakh

Kargil

Leh

         MP

Jabalpur

Maharashtra

Ahmednagar

 

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