Officials asked to set up task force to prevent spread of Scrub Typhus

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu directed the wellness officials to acceptable up a task unit comprising national-level aesculapian experts to survey and forestall the dispersed of Scrub Typhus illness successful the State.

In a reappraisal gathering connected Tuesday, wellness officials informed the Chief Minister that the State reported 1,592 cases truthful acold and that determination was nary confirmed deaths owed to the disease. They told him that Chittoor leads different districts with 420 cases.

The officials besides told him that the illness was dispersed crossed the country, and A.P. stood successful eighth presumption with respect to cases.

In response, the Chief Minister directed them to represent a task unit and intensify consciousness programmes to apprehension the dispersed of the disease. Responding to the officials’ connection that the State reported a driblet successful dengue and malaria cases this year, Mr. Chandrababu Naidu stressed the request for bringing the seasonal illness caseload to the zero level.