In the last 24 hours, Maharashtra recorded 15,817 new cases; Punjab reported 1,408; Karnataka logged 833; Gujarat 715; Tamil Nadu noted 670 cases; Madhya Pradesh 603; Delhi 431 cases and Haryana reported 385, as per the data shared by the ministry of health and family welfare.
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Praja Arogya Vedika calls for heightened caution to prevent a second wave
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People registering themselves for COVID tests at the ENT Hospital in Visakhapatnam on Thursday.
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Praja Arogya Vedika calls for heightened caution to prevent a second wave
Praja Arogya Vedika (PAV) has appealed to Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy to strengthen the public healthcare system and work towards improvement of infrastructure in hospitals, procurement of medicines, continuation with the same doctors and healthcare workers, who were appointed to combat the pandemic in the past.
In a letter to the Chief Minister on Thursday, M.V. Ramanaiah, president and T. Kameswar Rao, general secretary, while appreciating the timely efforts of the government in tackling the pandemic during the first phase, noted that the new variants of the coronavirus were spreading rapidly in some States.
Travellers from Maharashtra, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab will need a negative coronavirus test report to enter Delhi from February 26 to March 15.