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Share 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.   Asserting that the recent COVID-19 surge is spreading fast and needs immediate attention, Dr. Harsh Vardhan detailed the fight with COVID so far, “In the shortest possible time, we ramped up testing from 1 lab to 2467 labs today with a capacity of more than 15 lakh tests per day, set up hospital infrastructure including COVID care Centres, COVID hospitals with oxygen beds and ventilator bed. More than 12,000 quarantine centres were established. We also overcame the need for PPE kits, N95 masks.This helped to tide over the pandemic last year.” He expressed the opinion that the vital characteristics were not know last year which has since

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