As new Covid variants appear, Centre steps up surveillance

In a Covid review meeting held on Tuesday, Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya stressed the need to undertake adequate testing - with higher proportion of RT-PCR - effective Covid-19 surveillance to assess and control the spread of infection in a timely manner. He also urged officials to closely monitor hospitalisations due to Covid-19, the health ministry said in a statement.

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