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Union Health Minister reiterates five-fold strategy for effective COVID-19 surveillance

File photo of Mansukh Mandaviya. (Source: The Hindu)

Highlighting the role that teleconsultation has played to serve the people in far-off places as well as COVID-19 patients in home isolation, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday asked the states and the union territories to focus more on such services for better public health management.

He also said more than the projected requirements of COVID-19 vaccine doses were provided to the States and the UTs to ensure that there is no let-up in the pace of the inoculation drive.

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