New Delhi: As India has been witnessing a positive trend in its fight against Covid19, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh Vardhan on Thursday said that India is well aware of its present enemy (Covid19) "and we know how to deal with it."
"We have three categories-red, orange and green. We are helping the red zones get into the orange zone if they do not have a single case for the next 14 days and the same for the orange to get into the green zone. We know very accurately where our enemy is in the country and we know how to deal with this enemy. Using all our forces, we will defeat it," said Dr Harsh Vardhan.
Dr Vardhan was participating in an interactive session with civil society organisations and NGOs. The programme was organised by Niti Aayog over Covid19.
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The Health Minister has said that India was one of the first countries to prepare a strategy at a national and international level along with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to tackle Covid19.
"Government of India has taken pre-emptive and pro-active action and escalated the response as per the situation," said Dr Vardhan.
He said that India Covid19 doubling rate gas been showing regular improvement and stands at 12.5 days when seen over a period of three days.
"We had 11.0 days over a period of 7 days, 9.9 days over a period of 14 days. These indicators may be taken as positive effects of the lockdown in the country along with the cluster management and containment strategies," said Dr Harsh Vardhan.
He reiterated that social distancing and lockdown continue to be the most potent social vaccine in the containment of Covid19.
Highlighting the work done by 92,000 NGOs in terms of providing food and other necessities to different sections of society amid lockdown, Dr Vardhan appealed for their assistance in the continuance of the lockdown.
He said that India has an adequate number of PPEs and masks.
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"We have enabled and handheld 108 manufacturers in the country, who are now producing over 1 lakh PPEs every day. For N-95 masks, we are producing more than a lakh every day now. There is an adequate supply of these items and we are distributing the same to the States," said Dr Vardhan.
He added that till India gets a vaccine against Covid19, "social distancing aided by the national lockdown is the most potent social vaccine for us."
