New Delhi: A nationwide drill will take place in both public and private hospitals on Monday and Tuesday as the country has been witnessNationwide Mock Drills To Check COVID Preparedness Amid Spikeing an upsurge in COVID19 cases and the Central government is taking all precautions to ensure that the surge does not turn into a fresh wave.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will visit AIIMS, Jhajjar on April 10 to oversee the mock drill.
The decision came after Mansukh Mandaviya last week chaired a meeting with Health Ministers of States and Union Territories to review the Covid preparedness amid the alarming surge.
The Health Minister had said that the five-fold strategy of ‘Test-Track-Treat-Vaccinate and adherence to Covid-Appropriate Behaviour’ remains the tested strategy for Covid management.
He stressed the need to identify emergency hotspots by monitoring trends of influenza-like illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) cases, ramping up testing and vaccination, and ensuring readiness of hospital infrastructure.
Earlier, states and union territories were advised to increase the share of RT-PCR in tests and to expeditiously increase the rate of testing from 100 tests per million as on the week ending April 7.
#WATCH | #COVID19 preparedness drill being conducted at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Jhajjar in Haryana pic.twitter.com/86BS8WXGM5
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