WEB DESK
With One more suspected case of coronavirus tested positive the case related to virus increases to 31 in India.Special Secretary of Health and Family Welfare Ministry, Sanjeeva Kumar said today that the patient who has been quarantined in a hospital is stable now. He informed that the patient has a travel history from Thailand and Malaysia.
Mr Kumar said, all international passengers are mandated to go for the universal screening at the airports. Nine more airports have been added for this purpose and now universal screening will be done at 30 airports in the country.
Mr Kumar said, Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan visited Indira Gandhi International Airport last night to review the preparedness for universal screening. The Minister also held meeting with the owners of hospitals situated in Delhi-NCR to review the preparedness.
The Special Secretary said, several issues like provision of bed capacities in the hospitals for infected cases, isolation wards, protocol for sample collections and others were discussed at length during the meeting. He said, the national level training on Covid-19 was chaired today by the Health Secretary, Ms. Preeti Sudan and it was attended by Health officials from all states, hospitals, railways, defence and para-military forces.