Covid-19 cases are on the rise in the rural areas, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that localised containment strategies are the need of the hour, especially in states with high positivity rate in districts.
He also called for augmenting healthcare resources in rural areas to focus on door to door testing and surveillance.At a high-level Covid review meeting, the PM said testing needs to be scaled up further, with use of both RT-PCR and rapid tests, especially in areas with high test positivity rates.
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