A high-level meeting was organized by the Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya in India in view of the increasingly large Corona epidemic in China and other countries.
Let us inform you that the Union Minister of State for Health, Dr. Bharti Pawar, along with prominent health experts of the country are involved in this meeting. He said that a guideline regarding genome sequencing was issued on Tuesday. In this meeting organized by the Union Health Ministry, Dr. VK Paul, member of NITI Aayog, Dr. N.K. Arora, DG-ICMR Dr Rajeev Behl, Secretary Department of Biotechnology Dr Rajesh Gokhale and DGHS Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Dr Atul Goyal.
"In view of rising cases of #COVID19 in some countries, reviewed the situation with experts and officials today. COVID is not over yet. I have directed all concerned to be alert and strengthen surveillance. We are prepared to manage any situation," tweets Union Health Minister pic.twitter.com/C2PIygymS6
— ANI (@ANI) December 21, 2022
However in the meantime, genome sequencing of Corona virus cases has resumed. Following the order of the Central Government, positive samples are being collected for genome sequencing at Lok Nayak and ILBS Hospitals of the Delhi Government. Director of Lok Nayak Hospital, Dr. Suresh Kumar told us that genome sequencing of positive samples will be done on a daily basis. From this it will be known whether any new strain is flourishing. Significantly, new cases of Corona in Japan, South Korea, Brazil, China and America are increasing rapidly.
However, if we look at the Corona figures of the last few days, 12 deaths have been recorded in India due to infection in the last week.
