India’s response to COVID-19 has been proactive: Health Ministry

"Ministry of Home Affairs in a letter today, requested states/UTs to provide police security to doctors and other medical staff, as needed, in the hospitals and the quarantine facilities where they are working": Punya Salila Srivastava, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs.

"We have followed a graded approach. There are 586 COVID-19 dedicated hospitals and more than 1 lakh isolation beds in the country": Lav Agrawal, Joint Secy, Health Ministry.