Cabinet Secretary and the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister reviewed the status, actions taken and preparedness regarding management and containment of COVID-19 in a high level with Chief Secretaries of States through a video conference, here today. The increase in the number of confirmed cases during the last few days was discussed. The Central Government impressed upon the States the need for urgent and effective interventions.
After detailed discussions, the following decisions were taken:
State Governments will issue orders allowing only essential services to operate in districts with confirmed COVID-19 cases. The focus should be on closure of all activities except essential services such as hospitals, telecom, medicine shops, provision stores etc.
Establishments/factories engaged in manufacturing and distribution of essential commodities like medicines, vaccines, sanitizers, masks, medical devices, their ancillaries and support services etc., should be exempt from these restrictions.
State Governments may expand the list depending on their assessment of the situation.
All train services suspended till 31st March 2020 including sub urban rail services.
Good trains may continue to operate for facilitating availability of essential commodities.
All metro rail services suspended till 31st March 2020.
Interstate passenger transport also to be suspended till 31st Mar 2020.
Transport services may operate at mere skeletal level
These measures are temporary but extremely vital to break the chain of transmission.
States were also requested to ensure that while such measures are being taken, necessary steps to minimize discomfort to the poor and disadvantaged sections of the society may be ensured.
States to request industries, establishments etc., to allow their employees to work from home and provide remuneration to them during this period.
Central Government has already asked Labour Ministry and Ministry of Corporate Affairs to issue necessary instructions to this effect.
States were further asked to ramp up the readiness to manage the positive cases in health facilities.
States to assess the availability of medical services including quarantine and scale them up to meet all possible contingencies.
States were asked to have earmarked facilities fully dedicated to manage the COVID-19 cases only.
Each State was requested to identify and ensure that such hospitals are equipped to manage the COVID 19 cases.
Following is the list of the districts which have reported confirmed COVID-19 cases:
State
District
Andhra Pradesh
Prakasam
Vijaywada
Vizag
Chandigarh
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Raipur
Delhi
Central
East Delhi
North Delhi
North West Delhi
North East Delhi
South Delhi
West Delhi
Gujrat
Kutchh
Rajkot
Gandhinagar
Surat
Vadodara
Ahmedabad
Haryana
Faridabad
Sonepat
Panchkula
Panipat
Gurugram
Himachal Pradesh
Kangra
UT of J&K
Srinagar
Jammu
Karnataka
Bangalore
Chikkaballapura
Mysore
Kodagu
Kalaburgi
Kerala
Alappuzha
Ernakulam
Iduki
Kannur
Kasargod
Kottayam
Mallapuram
Pathanamthitta
Thiruvanthpuram
Thrissur
UT of Ladakh
Kargil
Leh
MP
Jabalpur
Maharashtra
Ahmednagar
