<span style="color: #222222;">Union Health Ministry has said that the government has taken several steps along with the States and Union Territories for prevention, containment and management of COVID-19. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In this regard, various guidelines, advisories and treatment protocols have been developed and shared with the States to strengthen the collective response toward combating COVID-19. The Ministry said, several States have implemented these containment strategies and produced effective outcomes.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The efforts of the Maharashtra government and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, BMC have shown encouraging results. As part of these efforts, they have actively chased the virus and aggressively conducted targeted tracing of COVID suspects. Being densely populated, Dharavi had 491 cases in April with a 12 per cent growth rate and the doubling period of cases was 18 days.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The proactive measures adopted by BMC reduced the COVID-19 growth rate to 4.3 per cent in May and further to around one per cent in June. The Ministry said, these measures also ensured an improved case doubling time to 43 days in May and 78 days in June. The Ministry said, BMC adopted a model of actively following four T's – Tracing, Tracking, Testing and Treating.</span><br />''