The government asked the state, UTS to consider curbing local restrictions on the upcoming festival

New Delhi: The center on Wednesday advises all states and UTSs to actively consider forcing local restrictions for the upcoming festivals such as Muharram, Onam, Janmashtami, Ganesh Chaturthi and Puja Durga and limit bulk meetings.
In a letter to the Head of Secretary and Administrators of all countries and UTS, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan stated that the Indian Medical Research Council (ICMR) and the National Disease Control Center (NCDC) had expressed concern about the potential of the mass meeting.
At the festival turning to a super spreader, leading to a surge in Covid case.
While appreciating their efforts to curb the spread of cases in the country during the second wave of Covid-19, Bhushan said that even though the trajectory of new cases of daily cases has shown a stable decline in the past month, there are several countries that still reflect the upsurge signs in the case everyday and their participants.
In this case, he urged the countries and UTS to refer to the instructions issued under the Disaster Management Law by the Ministry of the Houses on June 29 for focused detention steps.
“Given this order, and remember the upcoming festivals like Muharram (August 19), Onam (August 21), Janmashtami (August 30), Ganesh Chaturthi (September 10), Durga Puja (October 5-15), where a large public meeting It is hoped that it is recommended that countries can actively consider coercing local restrictions in public observations of this festival and curbs mass meetings, “Bhushan said in his letter.
“ICMR and NCDC have expressed concern about the potential of mass collection events during the festival that turned into a super spreader event, so it led to a surge in Covid cases,” he said.
It was previously communicated to countries and VID UTS letters dated July 20 by the Ministry of Health Union.
“I want to repeat that every weakness in ensuring strict compliance with a five-fold strategy of testing-vaccinations and ensuring the appropriate behavior of Covid, it can lead to the loss of the encouragement that our country has obtained so far in managing pandemics.
I look forward to your proactive steps Sustainable in this case, so we can continue to build on the momentum obtained in our collective response to Covid-19, “Bhushan said in his letter.
The center on Tuesday said that the reproduction figure or R value which showed the speed at which Covid-19 spreads more than one and showed an increasing trend in eight states and UTS – Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Lakshwadweep, Lakshwadweep, Tamil Nadu, Mizoram , Karnataka, Puducherry and Kerala – which is the cause of concern.
The number of R is a measure that highlights the number of people infecting the positive person of Coronavirus, thus reflecting the severity of the spread.
A number of one or below shows a virus that slowly spreads while the number above shows the rapid spread.
Also, 44 ​​districts in 12 states and the United States, including Kerala, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya, reported more than 10 percent weekly in the week ended the week 2.
Next, 18 districts in six countries (Kerala (Kerala (10 District ), Maharashtra (3), Manipur (2), Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Mizoram (each) – reported an increasing trend in new daily cases in the last four weeks, officials said on Tuesday.