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Serum Institute of India (SII) will provide two crore doses of Covishield vaccine to central government free of cost amid rise in Covid-19 cases in some countries, news agency PTI reported.
11 tourists from Myanmar, isolated at Safdarjung Hospital earlier this week after one of them tested coronavirus positive at IGI Airport in New Delhi, have turned out to be negative and are being discharged, news agency PTI reported.
A woman and her six-year-old daughter who returned from China via Colombo tested positive at Madurai airport in Tamil Nadu, a senior health official said on Wednesday.
The woman, hailing from Virudhunagar near Madurai, and her daughter underwent RT-PCR test at the airport when they landed on Tuesday and the results turned positive for coronavirus, the official said.
Both are under home isolation in Virudhunagar. Their samples would be sent to the state lab for whole genomic sequencing.
Two passengers from Dubai tested positive for Covid-19 at Chennai airport, Tamil Nadu Health Department said on Wednesday, reported ANI. Both the passengers hail from Pudukottai district's Alangudi and their test samples have been sent to State Public Health Laboratory.
A more than ten-fold increase in cases of Covid-19 has been witnessed in Bihar since last week, as per the figures released by the state health department. The state, which had zero active cases till Sunday now has 14, with Gaya accounting for 12 of these.
Notably, Gaya is witnessing an influx of pilgrims from abroad who are heading for Bodh Gaya, less than 20 km away, to attend the discourses of the Dalai Lama.
Following the nationwide Covid mock drill on Tuesday, officials at Srinagar's SMHS Hospital said that they have six oxygen plants and enough drug supplies.
"We have 6 oxygen plants with a capacity of 5,600 litres per minute and 1,700 oxygen cylinders. We have enough drug supplies. Today during the mock drill we checked the pressure and purity of the oxygen plant here in the hospital," the official said.
In view of surge in Covid cases in many countries, Air India Express has issued Covid-appropriate guidelines for travellers coming from United Arab Emirates to India. The recommendation advises that all the passengers should preferably be completely immunised as per the approved primary schedule of vaccination against Covid-19 in their country. Other precautions to take when travelling include the use of masks and physical distancing.
"All guests should preferably be fully vaccinated as per the approved primary schedule of vaccination against COVID-19 in their country. All guests should preferably use masks and follow physical distancing on flights/travel and at all points of entry," the official Twitter handle of Air India Express tweeted.
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Mock drills were held at health facilities across India on Tuesday to check operational readiness to deal with any spurt in Covid-19 infection. Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya oversaw the exercise at the Centre-run Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi while health ministers took stock in their respective states and gave information on available beds, oxygen support and other equipment, medicines, vaccines, etc.
"Covid cases are rising all over the world and India might witness a spike in cases too. Hence it is important that the entire Covid infrastructure in terms of equipment, processes and human resources are in a state of operational readiness," Mandaviya said, adding government and private hospitals were making arrangements to ensure the people do not face any difficulty.
The Centre had asked states and union territories to conduct the drill as part of precautionary measures following an increase in infection in China and other countries.
India recorded a single-day rise of 157 new Covid-19 cases, while the count of active cases of the disease has marginally decreased to 3,421, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, four international travellers from Myanmar tested positive for Covid at the Delhi airport and were admitted to the Safdarjung Hospital.
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who also holds the health portfolio, said city government-run hospitals were "fully equipped" to fight Covid.
In Mumbai, medical facilities including Seven Hills Hospital (having 1,700 beds) and Cama Hospital (100 beds) conducted the mock drill.
According to the state health department, 44,666 passengers arrived at Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur international airports, and at least 703 underwent RT-PCR tests and two tested positive for the infection.
The samples of the infected passengers were sent for genome sequencing, it said.
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