UTTAR PRADESH READIES FOR COVID WAVE

Amid the growing Covid scare in the country, the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government has issued an alert across the state and stepped up preparedness.

“The Health and Medical Education Department should start arrangements from investigation to treatment.

“Vigilance should be increased at the airport. People who have returned from infection-affected countries should be tested,” sources told ANI.

The sources said that Deputy Chief Minister Brijesh Pathak has instructed all the Chief Medical Officers of the state and officers of the Medical Education Department to step up vigilance.

“He said that checking of passengers coming from infectionaffected countries should be ensured. Get genome sequencing done,” the sources said, adding that it would help in the detection of new Covid variants accurately.

“Identify passengers with other symptoms including cold and fever,” sources said.

Meanwhile, Gujarat Health Minister Rishikesh Patel yesterday reviewed Covid-19 preparedness in the state and instructed officials to increase the testing of foreign arrivals at international airports.

He chaired a meeting of the Department’s senior officers and the Minister was briefed about the present situation in the state,

Patel also instructed to to follow the ‘Triple T’ approach — tracing, testing and treatment — if required.

Addressing the media, Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Manoj Aggarwal said: “All primary and community health centers are being asked to keep medicine and enough stocks of vaccines ready, as well as oxygen plants that are installed should be tested and kept ready.”

According to the Department’s Tuesday’s bulletin, there are 20 active Covid cases in the state and their condition is stable.