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India s Covid-19 testing is falling short – again How big is the problem?

India’s Covid-19 testing is falling short – again. How big is the problem? Not only is the country undercounting infections, inadequate testing is also making predictions of future trajectories difficult. May 11, 2021 · 06:30 am A medical worker takes a swab sample of a child for a Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test for the Covid-19 coronavirus screening at a testing centre in Hyderabad on April 29, 2021. | Noah Seelam / AFP In the spring of 2020 when Covid-19 first hit India, one of the first things independent experts red flagged about the country’s response was inadequate testing. Over the next few months, every aspect of the country’s testing regime was dissected by the media, from the availability of test kits to the pricing of tests.

Supreme Court sets up 12-member panel to monitor oxygen allocation amid COVID-19 surge

The panel will provide inputs, based on members scientific and specialised knowledge, to meet others challenges to have been raised by the pandemic. The Secretary of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is among the 12 members while the Convenor of the National Task Force will be the Cabinet Secretary to the Centre. Other members include leading doctors from Delhi hospitals, Vellore s Christian Medical College, Bengaluru s Narayana Healthcare and Mumbai s Fortis Hospital. Here s the list of 12-panel members:  1. Dr Bhabatosh Biswas, former Vice-Chancellor, West Bengal University of Health Sciences, Kolkata 2. Dr Devender Singh Rana, Chairperson, Board of Management, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi

Coronavirus, Oxygen Crisis: Supreme Court Task Force To Look Into Oxygen Distribution Amid Covid

India is battling a second wave of Covid infections that has triggered an oxygen crisis (File) New Delhi: A 12-member National Task Force has been set up by the Supreme Court to assess availability and distribution of medical oxygen - on scientific, rational and equitable basis - across the country. The task force will also suggest measures to ensure availability of medicines needed to treat COVID-19. Setting up of the task force had been ordered by the top court on Friday, when it called for a revamp of the centre s allocation of oxygen to different states. At the time the centre had agreed and wanted an audit to be performed, but the Delhi government had opposed it.

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