NEW DELHI: In order to augment the healthcare facilities across the country to cater to the rising demand for hospitalisation of Covid-19 patients, the Centre has asked states and Union territories to consider setting up field hospitals with help from government research agencies or the private sector as vaccinations will be opened to all above 18 from May 1.
State governments can take help from agencies like the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and similar agencies in the private sector to build these field hospitals.
Health secretary Rajesh Bhushan and Dr R S Sharma, chairman of the empowered group on technology and data management on Covid-19 chaired a high-level meeting with states on Saturday to review situation of health infrastructure and vaccination in the wake of rising Covid-19 cases.
Read more about Covid surge likely due to lack of antibodies in seropositive people: CSIR on Business Standard. The recurrence of coronavirus outbreak in March could have been be due to lack of "meaningful antibodies" in seropositive people after a peak in September last year,
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New Delhi: Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare today chaired a high-level meeting with the Directors of ten AIIMS, PGIMER Chandigarh and JIPMER Puducherry to discuss the Public Health Response to the COVID crisis in the presence of Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare.
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COVID-19 crisis far from over; 3rd wave to have more serious consequences: CSIR
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Director General Shekhar C Mande said people should continue wearing masks, maintaining hand hygiene and observing social distancing to avoid getting infected as India is nowhere near achieving herd immunity
BusinessToday.In | March 1, 2021 | Updated 09:53 IST
While responding to a question around the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines against coronavirus variants, Mande said the evidence that vaccines will not work against the mutated virus is not very strong
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Director General Shekhar C Mande has warned the COVID-19 crisis is far from over. He said people and the scientific community should not allow complacency to set in , and cautioned that a third wave could lead to a more grievous situation than the challenges the country faced so far.