*Officers brief Sinha on surge in cases
Excelsior Correspondent
Jammu, Apr 18: Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha today chaired a high level meeting to review the COVID-19 situation in J&K.
During the meeting, the Lt Governor was briefed about the latest update on the surge in COVID cases, COVID testing capacities, trends of daily testing, district wise trend of active cases, infrastructure for COVID management viz bed capacity, ventilators, oxygen generation plants besides logistics with the health care institutions in J&K and district-wise vaccination coverage.
While reviewing the COVID-19 management and control efforts in J&K, the Lt Governor instructed the officers to achieve 100% coverage under the Ayushman Bharat – SEHAT scheme, besides making serious efforts to intensify the vaccination in their respective districts.
He directed the Deputy Commissioner Srinagar to ramp up the efforts to increase vaccination of the age appropriate categories and involve prominent religious leaders, sportspersons, and public figures to sensitize the public for getting vaccinated for one’s own safety and safety of others.
Sinha further called for heightened awareness to keep the infection low and immediate capacity augmentation.
Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar, Advisor to the Lt Governor; BVR Subrahmanyam, Chief Secretary; Dilbag Singh, DGP; Arun Kumar Mehta, Financial Commissioner, Finance Department; Atal Dulloo, Financial Commissioner, Health and Medical Education; Shaleen Kabra, Principal Secretary, Home Department; Shailendra Kumar, Principal Secretary, Public Works (R&B) Department; Nitishwar Kumar, Principal Secretary to the Lt Governor; Simrandeep Singh, Secretary to the Government, DMRR&R; BK Singh, Secretary School Education; Sushma Chauhan, Secretary, Higher Education; Dr. Raghav Langer, Divisional Commissioner Jammu; Ch. Mohd. Yasin, Mission Director, National Health Mission, J&K and Mukesh Singh, IGP Jammu attended the meeting.
Pandurang K. Pole, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir; Vijay Kumar, IGP Kashmir and Mohammad Aijaz, Deputy Commissioner, Srinagar joined the meeting through virtual mode.
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