The annual report of the Residence ministry for 2021-22 says that India had equipped all its ministries to take care of coronavirus a lot earlier than World Well being Organisation (WHO) declared Covid-19 a public well being emergency of worldwide concern.
The report says that the outbreak of coronavirus illness was initially observed at a seafood market in Wuhan metropolis in Hubei province of China in mid-December 2019. The WHO (underneath worldwide well being rules) declared it as a public well being emergency of worldwide concern (PHEIC) on January 1, 2020, and a pandemic on March 11, 2020, it says.
“India adopted a proactive, pre-emptive and graded response to take care of the unprecedented international disaster. On the onset of the primary wave of covid-19 pandemic, the federal government imposed a 21-day nationwide lockdown from March 25, 2020, to comprise the unfold of Covid-19 and ramp up the well being infrastructure to save lots of lives,” the report says.
The MHA report says when the second wave of Covid-19 hit India in early 2021, the nation was outfitted with enough testing infrastructure and higher ready to fight the virus. The demand for life-saving medicines, akin to remdesivir, and medical oxygen for the remedy of average and important sufferers soared, and the ministry took quite a few steps to make sure enough and uninterrupted provide of the identical. “We coordinated for the hassle-free provide of medical oxygen from crops, issued orders for limiting the usage of medical oxygen for industrial functions and paved the way in which for its utilization for medical functions solely… facilitated the motion of medical oxygen throughout the nation as per the accepted allocation plan, coordinated in seamless provide and transport of remdesivir and different important medicines, coordinated lifting of high-capacity tankers from overseas… and suggested states/UTs to direct district collectors to take motion to revive oxygen era crops which had been mendacity defunct,” it says.