Union Health Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandavya will hold a virtual assembly with state fitness ministers on the Covid-19 scenario and prepare today at 3 p. m. M. , according to sources. Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high-level assembly on Thursday to review the scenario and get ready for the public health reaction to COVID-19 and under pressure from the need for enhanced surveillance with genome sequencing and better testing.
The high-level review assembly comes amid a backlog of COVID-19 cases in some countries, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.
Prime Minister Modi assessed the COVID-19 scenario in the country, the preparation of fitness infrastructure and logistics, and the vaccination crusade in the country. It also assessed the emergence of new variants of Covid-19 and their implications for public fitness.
Over the two days since, leading ministers from many states across the country have held high-level meetings with senior officials related to Covid19 preparedness in their states.
On Thursday, Delhi Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal entrusted others with the government’s preparedness and said there was no need to panic as the country’s capital does not have a single case of the COVID-19 subvariant Omicron BF. 7.
There has been an alarming accumulation of covid cases in China, Japan, South Korea, France and the United States. The spike is attributed to the new Omicron BF. 7 subvariant, which was also detected in four Indian states, according to the data. of the Ministry of Health.
Speaking to the media after the COVID-19 review meeting, Delhi’s leading minister said: “COVID-19 cases are expanding in China and several other countries. It has variant BF. 7. We have a single case of this variant in Delhi. So there’s no need to worry.
He further said that the fitness department is conducting genome sequencing of all cases recorded in the city.
However, Kejriwal said that the XBB variant is being reported in Delhi.
“The BR. 7 variant was not detected even in tea water samples collected and tested at seven other locations in Delhi. 92% of reported cases in Delhi are similar to the XBB variant or its sub-variants,” he said.
The leading minister said that the Delhi government is fully ready for the new wave of COVID-19.
Kejriwal asked others to take the precautionary doses of the vaccine, as only 24% of Delhi citizens have taken them so far.
“The first and current doses were provided to almost one hundred percent of the beneficiaries. Only 24% of other people took the precautionary dose. We ask others to take the dose out of caution. During the meeting, we discussed a few others door-to-door. “campaign to give other people doses of caution,” Kejriwal said.
When asked about the face mask, he said: “We are waiting for directives from the central government. We will put them in place when they give orders,” Delhi’s CM said.
In the past six months, India has reported four cases of the BF. 7 Omicron subvariant, corresponding to the existing outbreak of infections in China.
According to sources, lately there are another 10 variants of Covid-19 in the country, the newest being BF. 7.
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