<p>The Union Home Ministry has called a meeting of the Northeastern states and a few Union Territories on Wednesday to discuss the COVID-19 situation there, sources said.</p>.<p>This comes three days after the central government decided to send multi-disciplinary teams to six states, including Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Tripura.</p>.<p>Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla has called a meeting of top officials of the health department of the Northeastern states and a few UTs on July 7, official sources said on Monday.</p>.<p>The meeting is likely to be held through video conference.</p>.<p>It is expected to take stock of the overall implementation of Covid-19 management, especially in testing, surveillance and containment operations, Covid-appropriate behaviour and its enforcement, availability of hospital beds, sufficient logistics including ambulances, ventilators, medical oxygen and the vaccination progress, the sources said.</p>.<p>The meeting will be held as an ongoing effort to strengthen initiatives of various state and UT governments for Covid-19 management.</p>.<p>The central government has been deputing teams from time to time to visit various states and UTs for interacting with the state and UT authorities and get a first-hand understanding of the challenges and issues being faced by them so as to strengthen their ongoing activities and remove bottlenecks if any, sources said.</p>.<p>The central teams make an assessment of the situation and suggest remedial actions on public health activities to the respective state governments.</p>
<p>The Union Home Ministry has called a meeting of the Northeastern states and a few Union Territories on Wednesday to discuss the COVID-19 situation there, sources said.</p>.<p>This comes three days after the central government decided to send multi-disciplinary teams to six states, including Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Tripura.</p>.<p>Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla has called a meeting of top officials of the health department of the Northeastern states and a few UTs on July 7, official sources said on Monday.</p>.<p>The meeting is likely to be held through video conference.</p>.<p>It is expected to take stock of the overall implementation of Covid-19 management, especially in testing, surveillance and containment operations, Covid-appropriate behaviour and its enforcement, availability of hospital beds, sufficient logistics including ambulances, ventilators, medical oxygen and the vaccination progress, the sources said.</p>.<p>The meeting will be held as an ongoing effort to strengthen initiatives of various state and UT governments for Covid-19 management.</p>.<p>The central government has been deputing teams from time to time to visit various states and UTs for interacting with the state and UT authorities and get a first-hand understanding of the challenges and issues being faced by them so as to strengthen their ongoing activities and remove bottlenecks if any, sources said.</p>.<p>The central teams make an assessment of the situation and suggest remedial actions on public health activities to the respective state governments.</p>