COVID 19 in India: The central and state governments have been alerted amidst the increasing cases of corona. In view of this the Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a review meeting on Wednesday (March 22) evening. During this a detailed discussion was held on the increasing cases of corona and HN2 influenza virus. According to the Prime Minister’s Office, PM Modi advised to be careful and vigilant.
According to the PMO, Prime Minister Modi called for increasing laboratory surveillance, testing all cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) and expediting genome sequencing. PM Modi said that this will help in keeping an eye on the new variant and take timely action.
advice on wearing a mask
PM Modi also emphasized that senior citizens and people suffering from other diseases should wear masks in crowded places.
According to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), information was also given in the meeting about the action taken on the instructions of Prime Minister Modi during the last review of Kovid on December 22, 2022. He was told that the availability and price of 20 main medicines related to Kovid, 12 other medicines, eight buffer medicines and one medicine for influenza are being monitored.
Home Minister Amit Shah, Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan, ICMR’s Rajeev Behl, NITI Aayog’s VK Paul and others were present in the meeting.
According to the latest data released by the Union Health Ministry on Wednesday, 1134 new cases of corona virus have been registered in the country. After this, the number of active patients (patients under treatment) has increased to 7026.
According to the data released at eight in the morning, the death toll has increased to 5,30,813 with the death of five people due to infection. a day ago on tuesday corona virus There were 699 new cases of infection.
