The Madhya Pradesh Government has implemented
guidelines issued by the Centre in connection with a new variant of Covid, amid
an uptick in the viral infection cases in some States, said Chief Minister
Mohan Yadav.
Last night he visited Hamidia Hospital,
the largest State Government hospital in Bhopal, to take stock of the
arrangements.
“The health department is working with
full efficiency to deal with Covid as well as all other diseases,” Yadav told
reporters after visiting the medical facility.
“We have implemented guidelines issued
by the Centre regarding a new variant of Covid in the entire State,” he said.
Yadav said the country got victory over
the pandemic earlier also under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Chief Minister interacted with the
attendants of patients during the visit to the hospital.
On Monday, the Centre asked States and
Union Territories to maintain constant vigil amid the rise in Covid cases and
the detection of the first case of the new JN.1 variant in the country.
Bharat’s first case of Covid sub-variant
JN.1 was detected in Kerala on December 8. Earlier, a traveller from Tamil Nadu’s
Tiruchirappalli district tested positive for the JN.1 variant in Singapore.
In a letter to States and Union
Territories, Union Health Secretary Sudhansh Pant has underlined that “due to
consistent and collaborative actions between the Centre and State governments,
we have been able to sustain the (Covid) trajectory at sustainable low rates”.
“However, as the Covid virus continues
to circulate and its epidemiology behaviour gets settled with Indian weather
conditions and circulation of other usual pathogens, it is important to keep
the momentum going to effectively deal with the challenges in public health,”
he said.
Recently, a few States like Kerala have
reported a slight increase in the number of Covid cases, Pant noted.
PTI
