New Delhi: Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday said that the Central government has stepped up its efforts to prevent the spread of Novel Coronavirus across the nation. The government has taken several initiatives which involve screening of passengers at international airports and India’s border with Bangladesh and Nepal, in addition to setting up more virology labs in the country for early detection of infection from the Covid-19 virus.
“We are screening passengers at 21 airports in the country and so far more than 6 lakh passengers have been screened,” Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said following a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.
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"We are also screening the passengers at our border with Nepal and Bangladesh and more than 10 lakh passengers have been screened so far,” Javadekar stated.
The government has also stepped up its effort to diagnose the cases of coronavirus as there was only one virology lab in Pune to diagnose the infection. However, the government is setting up 34 more labs in different cities to combat the outbreak.
“There was only one Virology lab in Pune. We have already set up 15 labs so far and 19 more labs will be set up this week,” the Union Minister said.
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