Outcry from Corona in China, India started preparations, Health Minister called high-level meeting today

Corona is scary again. The number of corona patients is increasing rapidly all over the world. In the last seven days, more than 36 lakh new cases of the corona were found all over the world. More than 10 thousand people died. Corona has created an outcry in China. Patients are not even getting beds in China. Lines are forming at the crematoriums. In view of the rapidly increasing number of corona patients in the whole world including China, India has also made its preparations. Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya has called a high-level meeting to deal with the possible threat of Corona. This meeting will start at 11.30 am today. Along with the officers of the states, officers of the Central Health Department will also be present in the meeting. Compared to China and Japan, Corona is not creating havoc in India right now, but the government is already in alert mode.

In view of the increasing number of new corona patients in the world, Rajesh Bhushan, Secretary, of the Ministry of Health in India, has written a letter to all the states and union territories asking them to send samples of all positive cases for genome sequencing, so that new variants of corona can be identified. can be detected. Today the Union Health Minister is going to hold a high-level meeting on this.

Keeping in mind the 'international scenario', Mansukh Mandaviya will hold a meeting on the Corona epidemic at 11.30 am, in which many senior officers associated with the health department will participate. According to media reports, other officials including the Department of AYUSH, Health Department, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, ICMR Director General Rajeev Behar, and members of NITI Aayog may attend the meeting.

Earlier on December 20, the Ministry of Health asked all the states and union territories to send samples of the reported cases of the corona to the INSACOG (Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium) laboratory, so that it could be known that there is no new case of the corona. Not the variant. On the other hand, if a new variant comes out, then it can be tracked.

Here, according to the information given by the Union Health Ministry, there is a decline in the cases of Kovid-19 in India, and there has also been a decrease in new cases in the last 24 hours. On the other hand, there has also been a decline in active cases. Now, this figure has reached 3,490. There are 1,448 active cases in Kerala while the number of active cases in Karnataka has reached 1,275.

According to the data released by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare at eight in the morning of 20 December 2022, 112 new cases were reported in the country during the last 24 hours. Earlier on December 19, 135 new cases were reported, while on December 18, 176 new cases were found, while on November 01, 1,046 new cases were reported.