Omicron vulnerabilities - War rooms kept ready?
The Union health Secretary has asked the state governments to prepare temporary hospitals as the corona infection continues to rise across the country. For the first time in India, an Omicron infection was confirmed in the state of karnataka on the 2nd of last month. It gradually increased and on december 21, 200 people were diagnosed with the infection. As of Saturday, it had risen to 1,431. The incidence of the daily corona has also been steadily rising. On the 27th, 6,531 people were infected in a single day. It gradually rose to 16,764 on the 31st. Also, Saturday's number rose to 22,775, the highest in the last 70 days.
According to the Department of health, it is spreading rapidly in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, and Bangalore. Meanwhile, maharashtra Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar has said that 10 ministers and 20 MLAs have been confirmed to be infected with the corona. Union health Secretary Rajesh bhushan has written a letter to all state chief secretaries. In it, Corona calls for the establishment of temporary hospitals to treat patients. He stressed that this should be done with the participation of the private sector and NGOs. He has been asked to prepare accommodation rooms to accommodate the first to moderately vulnerable.Rajesh bhushan also suggested that control rooms should be set up at the district and ward level to better monitor the home quarantine people.However, health minister Sajid Javed said the new restrictions would be used as a last resort to control the spread of corona. Meanwhile, the Florona virus has been identified in Israel. That is, the combination of the corona and the flu virus is called Florona. On Thursday, it was reported that a pregnant woman had been diagnosed with the infection.Israeli doctors say the number of flu cases has increased in the past few weeks. Therefore, they said, the impact of Florona needs to be investigated.