The Covid-19 crisis has underlined the need for more budgetary allocation for healthcare
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Covid-19 showed the Indian healthcare system bursting at its seams at the height of the pandemic; patients turned away, doctors and nurses exhausted in their PPE kits.
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Governments the world over were forced to spend more on healthcare in the past year. This kind of allocation might have otherwise taken decades.
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Pandemics have a way of exposing glaring fault lines. When it comes to the healthcare system, it bares every rot in the system, every loose nail, every creaky rafter, every patient in need of aid and every healthcare worker who is overworked. Covid-19 showed the Indian healthcare system bursting at its seams at the height of the pandemic; patients turned away, doctors and nurses exhausted in their PPE kits.
India-UK air travel to resume partially from 8 Jan: Govt issues SOPs
Passengers wearing protective face masks leave upon arrival at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport after India cancelled all flights from the UK.
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Operations till 23 January will be restricted to 15 flights per week each for carriers of two countries to and from Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad only
These SOPs shall be valid till 30 January or till further orders, whichever is earlier, the Health Ministry said today
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The Indian government on Friday issued Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for passengers who will be arriving from the UK after partial resumption of flights from 8 January, 2021 amid concerns of new Covid-19 strain, which was first identified in Britain,. These SOPs shall be valid till 30 January or till further orders, whichever is earlier, the Health Ministry said today.
Holding fort since Jan, no family time The Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) team in Ghaziabad began monitoring the Covid situation in .
New Corona Strain:Nagaland State health department to track and monitor UK-returnees
The Nagaland state Health department has issued guidelines in accordance with the National Task Force (NTF) directives to contain the spread of the new strain of virus.
| 29 Dec 2020 10:54 AM GMT
Kohima: The state department of Health and Family Welfare, Nagaland is going to implement immediate strategies to enable tracking and monitoring of passengers returned from the United Kingdom (UK). The decision comes after news of the spread of new strain of the Covid virus emerged in media, officials stated in a press release.
Dr. Vizolie Z. Suokhrie, Principal Director of the Health department said that the passengers returned from UK after December 20 would be tracked by the State Surveillance Units (SSUs) and District Surveillance Units (DSUs) under Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme of Union Health Department. He further mentioned that testing of the returnees as per the ICMR guidelines
Centre identifies 10 regional laboratories for genome sequencing to detect new COVID variant
The emergence of the new coronavirus strain in the UK has required India to increase viral genomic surveillance in order to understand the spread of the virus in a rapid and robust manner.
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NEW DELHI:
Ten regional laboratories have been identified by the Centre where states will send five per cent of their COVID-19 positive samples for genome sequencing to detect the new coronavirus variant that has emerged in the United Kingdom recently.
The health ministry has also established the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) for laboratory and epidemiological surveillance and expand whole genome sequencing of the coronavirus in the country, aiding in the understanding of how the virus spreads and evolves.