The Union Ministry of the Interior (MHA) on Wednesday listed a series of measures that it said were underway in Delhi to control the Covid-19 situation in the capital, days after the Union Interior Minister , Amit Shah, preside over an emergency meeting and announce measures to control the situation in the city.
The national capital reported 6,396 cases of the coronavirus disease on Tuesday, up from 3,797 infections on Monday. The city’s Covid-19 count stood at 495,598, including 7,812 deaths, according to a government bulletin on Tuesday.
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The Interior Ministry shared details of the steps being taken following Shah’s announcement of the 12-point plan on Sunday. “The Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) will add 250 ICU beds to its existing 250 ICU beds and will also create 35 BiPAP (Bi-Level Positive Airway Pressure) beds in the next 3-4 days in the Covid hospital near the Delhi airport, ”the ministry tweeted.
The ministry said that 45 doctors and 160 paramedics from the paramilitary forces had already arrived in Delhi for their deployment to the DRDO Covid-19 hospital and the Chhatarpur Covid care center. The remaining doctors, he said, will arrive in the next few days.
MHA also said it had set up ten multidisciplinary teams to visit more than 100 private hospitals in Delhi in order to identify additional intensive care unit (ICU) beds. “Indian Railways makes 800-bed train cars available at Shakur Basti train station to be served as isolation facilities and Covid care,” he tweeted.
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Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) had shipped 250 ventilators from Bengaluru that would arrive in Delhi over the weekend, the ministry said, adding that while the Union Health Ministry had provided 35 BiPAP machines to the DRDO facility, they would be provided 25 for Delhi. government.
“The Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) and the Delhi government are working together to upgrade the RT-PCR test capacity to 60,000 tests by the end of November,” MHA posted in another tweet. Ten mobile test labs with a total capacity of 20,000 would be deployed in a phased manner starting next week, the ministry added.
All the measures detailed by the MHA in its Twitter thread on Wednesday are among the 12 points that Shah drew after the emergency meeting held on Sunday. The meeting took place amid concerns over the worsening pandemic situation in Delhi.
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