The Ministry of Health has given a new six-point notice to states to address any Covid emergency amid emerging cases in neighboring China. India has reported a handful of the BF. 7 strain unleashed in China.
All travelers from China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand will want to provide a negative Covid certificate, Health Minister Mansukh Mandavya said today.
Passengers from those countries would be quarantined if they show symptoms or test positive, Health Minister Mansukh Mandavya said.
Oxygen shortages were first a major challenge in the early days of India’s mid-2021 current wave.
“Although Covid cases in the country are low and expanding at the moment, in order to cope with all the demanding situations that will arise in the future, the commissioning and maintenance of those medical services is of paramount importance,” said the other secretary of the Ministry of Health, Manohar Agnani, in the letter to States.
The government’s most recent advisory on medical oxygen monitoring states that PSA plants must remain fully functional and that normal training simulations must be performed to determine them.
PSA, short for voltage-modulated adsorption, is the procedure through which ambient air passes an internal filtration formula to separate nitrogen from the air, concentrating the remaining oxygen into a known purity.
The availability of liquid medical oxygen, or LMO, in gyms and the uninterrupted supply chain for replenishment will need to be ensured, the government said in the letter.
A good enough stock of oxygen cylinders will need to be maintained, as well as emergency stocks and a physically powerful filling formula, he said.
India has stepped up both genome sequencing of Covid cases given the surge in cases in China and elsewhere.
Cases are skyrocketing across China, with crematoria and hospitals struggling to cope with the government’s resolve to lift years of lockdowns, quarantines and mass testing.
The United States has warned that the outbreak is now a fear for the rest of the world, given the new viral mutations and the size of China.
India, which suffered greatly at the height of the pandemic, has not reported a significant backlog of cases.
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