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Special teams deployed in 15 states to tackle virus spread
Union health ministry decided to send these teams following state-level problems such as testing bottlenecks, few tests per million population, high confirmation rates, high testing confirmation rates, risk of capacity shortfall over the next two months, potential bed shortage, growing case fatality rate, high doubling rate, and a sudden spike in active cases.Three-member teams have been sent to seven districts and municipalities each in Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, six in Assam, five each in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Odisha, four each in Telangana, Haryana, Karnataka, Bihar, and Uttar Pradesh, and three each in Gujarat, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, and Delhi.The teams include two public health experts or epidemiologists or clinicians and