A conference room on the third floor of the ministry of health and family welfare’s office in Nirman Bhawan has become, since Monday, India’s coronavirus-control war-room. That was the day two men, one from Delhi, and another from Telangana, were confirmed to be suffering from Covid-19, caused by the novel coronavirus Sars-Cov-2. Since then, it has almost become a second home to Union health minister Harsh Vardhan, and officials from the ministry’s Emergency Medical Response Unit , the Central Surveillance Unit at the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), and the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Also present are technocrats, epidemiologists and directors from the three notified hospitals – All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Safdarjung Hospital and Ram Manohar Hospital — dealing with coronavirus cases in the capital. It’s here that policy decisions on how the spread of the virus should be tackled across the country are taken. For instance, on Wednesday , the ministry directed all states to adopt the cluster-containment strategy of testing all close contacts and screening everyone who lives within a 3-km radius of a positive case following the surge in cases after 25 people tested positive for Covid-19, taking the total number of… Read full this story
- Alberta slashes its energy ‘war room’ amid coronavirus pandemic
- Coronavirus news – live: India is seeing ‘worrying’ rise in daily Covid deaths, top scientist warns
- Zydus Cadila Becomes 6th Weapon in India's Armour Against Covid | All Approved Jabs Till Now
- When Nixon Made Vulgar Remarks About Indira Gandhi But Got Outwitted Over Indo-Pak War
- Why India's Vote Against Sri Lanka in UNHRC in 2012 and 2013 Should be Seen as an Aberration
- Would Have Sacked Army Chief If Kargil War Was Conducted Without Informing Me: Pak PM Imran Khan
- Cow Urine Kills Coronavirus? These Indian Scientists Are Fighting Fake News in the Time of Pandemic
- US Botched Up Foreign Missions Including Afghanistan, Iraq; Time for Washington to Introspect
- Getting Out Indian Envoy, Mission Staff from Afghanistan Was 'Difficult, Complicated': Jaishankar in US
- Sri Lanka is looking to Reset Ties with India, Bridge the ‘Trust Deficit’
Coronavirus war-room: India in mission mode have 336 words, post on m.hindustantimes.com at March 5, 2020. This is cached page on xBlogs. If you want remove this page, please contact us.