A series of reports by mid-day on the measles outbreak at Govandi prompted the Union ministry of health and family welfare on Wednesday to rush a high-level, multi-disciplinary team to Mumbai to take stock of the upsurge in the cases in the city. The team will assist the state health authorities in instituting public health measures and facilitate operationalisation of requisite control and containment measures.

The three-member Central team has experts from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), New Delhi, Lady Hardinge Medical College (LHMC), New Delhi and Regional Office for Health and Family Welfare, Pune. It is led by Dr Anubhav Srivastava, deputy director, integrated disease surveillance programme, NCDC.