DRDO joins Covid battle: 1,000-bed makeshift hospital to be set up in Lucknow | India News
Representative image LUCKNOW: With the Covid-19 second wave continuing its lethal run, UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath directed officials to set up a 1,000-bed hospital in Lucknow, which recorded 6,598 cases in the last 24 hours. Lucknow MP and Union Defence minister Rajnath Singh has pitched in to stem the crisis in his constituency and directed Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) to help set up the facility. The Defence Expo-2020 site at Vrindavan Yojana next to Shaheed Path, has been identified for this project. Sources said, DRDO teams reached the state capital late F...