Union Health Minister Manuskh Mandaviya is holding a “COVID review” assembly in New Delhi amid the surge in circumstances in China and different international locations such because the US, Brazil and Japan.

In this important assembly, Mandaviya together with senior officers and consultants are deliberating on the vital COVID-19 state of affairs measure that could possibly be taken amid an increase in circumstances in neighbouring China and different international locations. Notably, medical consultants comparable to member (Health) of NITI Aayog Dr VK Paul, AIIMS Director M Srinivas, National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI) Chairman N L Arora, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director General Rajiv Bahl and different senior officers are collaborating within the assembly chaired by Mandaviya.

Union Health Minister holds essential COVID overview assembly with consultants

In the assembly, Mandaviya won’t solely overview the COVID-19 state of affairs within the nation however may also overview the state of affairs in different international locations as nicely. How to take security measures at worldwide and home airports, find out how to improve surveillance at airports, willpower of guidelines for passengers coming from overseas and guidelines concerning Indians returning house are some factors on which the consultants will focus on.

In addition to this, Republic has discovered that within the COVID overview, there will probably be a dialogue on guidelines associated to programmes organised in reference to the celebration of the brand new 12 months, following which the federal government is more likely to prohibit the variety of individuals attending indoor and out of doors occasions forward of Christmas and New Year celebrations. 

Notably, this comes as China battles a recent bout of mounting COVID-19 circumstances, and the United States expressed considerations saying that a runaway outbreak may spawn new mutations of the virus that pose danger to the world that has returned to pre-COVID-19 normalcy. 

Centre directs states to conduct genome sequencing

On Tuesday, the Union Health Ministry requested the states and UTs to ship samples of all COVID-19-positive circumstances to INSACOG labs to trace new variants, if any.

“In view of the sudden spurt of cases being witnessed in Japan, the United States of America, the Republic of Korea, Brazil and China, it is essential to gear up the whole genome sequencing of positive cases samples to track the variants through SARS-CoV-2 Genome Consortium Network (INSACOG) network,” Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan stated in a letter addressed to the States and Union Territories on Tuesday.