A High-Level meeting was chaired by the Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Wednesday on the rising number of Covid cases in China and other countries, according to the sources.
According to officials in the health ministry, the Union Health Minister has directed officials for strict compliance in three aspects: High level of alertness on the case rise, intensified surveillance of infection and aggressive genome sequencing.
The meeting was attended by top doctors, the Health secretary, Department of Biotechnology (DBT) Secretary, NCDC Chief and Drug Controller General of India.
China on Tuesday had reported 5,280 new coronavirus cases, the most since the pandemic began. It faces its biggest outbreak so far since the early days of the pandemic. The country has announced a series of lockdowns in cities such as Beijing and Shenzhen city.
Chinese health authorities have indicated that the surge is being driven by the Omicron BA.2 “stealth” subvariant, the most infectious lineage yet of the SARS-Cov-2 virus.
Not only China, but there has been a surge in coronavirus cases across Western Europe, US, Germany and South Korea, among others. All these developments have been tied to the new sub-variant of the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus.
Source: TREND News Agency