VISAKHAPATNAM: Andhra Pradesh reported 141 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, taking the cumulative caseload to 20,76,687. The toll increased to 14,492 as two more patients succumbed to the pandemic.
One patient each died in Visakhapatnam and West Godavari districts.
AP conducted 30,752 Covid-19 tests on Tuesday and detected 141 new cases. This translates to a daily case positivity rate of 0.5%. Other than Krishna (98.7%), the recovery rate has exceeded the 99% mark in the remaining 12 districts.Medical oxygen capacity ramped up, oxygen beds increased, says Union government.There is a renewed call for caution and action as countries across the globe pull themselves to fight another surge in novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases driven by the new variant of concern omicron.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres December 27, 2021 warned that infectious diseases pose “a clear and present danger to every country”.
The devastation caused by the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic showed the world has failed to learn from health emergencies, he said on the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness.
The same has been affirmed by the 2021 Global Health Security (GHS) Index released December 8, which said countries across all income levels, including India, are unprepared to meet future epidemic and pandemic threats.
Global Health Security Index assesses countries across six categories — prevention, detection and reporting, rapid response, health system, compliance with international norms and risk environment.
As the third wave of the pandemic becomes imminent in the wake of omicron, how prepared is the Indian government?
India’s performance has declined owing to a slow response to such situations. It performed poorly under “rapid response”, a key indicator under the GHS Index 2021.
The country’s score has slipped 11.8 points since 2019. Its current score is 30.3, much lower than the poor global average of 37.6.
The score has been arrived at based on data collected from August 2020-June 2021. Between April and June .India prepared for 3rd wave, claims government
The “third wave of the pandemic”— driven by the new variant of concern omicron — is projected to peak February 3, 2022, according to a study by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
The yet-to-be peer-reviewed study was posted on preprint repository MedRxiv December 21.
Experts, too, had alerted the country about the inevitable third wave. They have cautioned against the dismantling of health infrastructure in fear of the inevitable third wave. Special hospitals created for COVID-19 should not be shut down, advised the health experts.
The Union government on December 10 acknowledged that omicron may lead to a fresh surge in COVID-19 cases. The matter was raised on several occasions in the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha during the winter session.
Rs 1827.78 crore was released to states / Union territories in 2021-22 under Emergency Response and Health System Preparedness Package: Phase-II, according to the Union health ministry.
In the meantime, India’s medical oxygen capacity, essential for serious COVID-19 patients has increased nearly 28 per cent between October 2020 and November 2021.
There has been an increase in oxygen capacity to 8,778 tonnes / day from 6,876 tonnes / day in November 2021, Bharati Pravin Pawar, minister of state in the Union health ministry told Lok Sabha December 3.
The Union government has sanctioned 1,563 Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) oxygen generation plants. PSA oxygen plants generate m
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