New Delhi: Center on Wednesday said that countries should consider forcing local restrictions during the future celebration season in the midst of a surge in Covid cases in several parts of the country.
Appointing the celebration begins with Muharram on August 19 to Puja Durga on October 15, the Ministry of Health said these countries must “actively consider the imposition of local restrictions in public observations on this festival”.
“The Indian Medical Research Council and Indian Disease Center have expressed concerns about mass collection events during the festival that turned into a super spreader event,” said Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan in a letter and administrators of all countries.
“I want to repeat that every hem.
Five -fold strategies’ test-track-treat-vaccine and ensure the appropriate behavior of Covid ”, can lead to loss of encouragement that our country has obtained so far in managing a pandemic, “he added.
Even when the center has repeatedly emphasized that the second wave has not ended and the Delta variant of the virus is still a dominant problem, the relaxation of the norms for the festival has resulted in a surge in several countries and the overall increase in infection reproduction values, which shows the spread.
On Tuesday, eight countries reported more than 1 ‘R values’ together with an increasing trend, while the other nine countries showed the right R value 1.
The reproduction number at 0.88 to a few days the back also rose to 1.2 and Equivalent to the US, Canada and Australia.
With the Delta variant still dominates the case and fear of towering from the third wave amid the increase in the number of cases in many countries, the government is worried that every major meeting may have the potential to reverse the tendency of decline in the overall Covid-19 situation in this country.