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States have been asked to designate nodal authorities and form protocols to receive and send such persons. States have also been asked to screen the people, quarantine them and to do periodic health checkups. [17] India's Health Ministry published its Guidelines on COVID-19 management, which included approval of hydroxychloroquine. These ...
The government of India launched the Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan initiative to tackle the impact of COVID-19 on migrant workers in India. It is a rural public works scheme which was launched on 20 June 2020 with an initial funding of ₹ 50,000 crore (equivalent to ₹ 590 billion or US$6.8 billion in 2023) for 116 districts in 6 states.
The undercounting may or may not be intentional. Rather undercounting may occur due to unreported COVID-19 cases, inefficiencies in the data collection system, inability to adapt to pandemic like situation and people not reporting deaths. [1] [33] [34] Undercounting of total cases and death figures was reported during the first wave in 2020.
With hospital beds running out in Delhi and other cities of India, people were being forced to find ways to treat sick patients at home. And the higher demand of concentrators, essential drugs and oxygen bottles have boosted the prices making it inaccessible to people and flawed drugs with cheap prices were circulating in the market.
[15] [6] Experts stated that the virus may reach an endemic stage in India rather than completely disappear; [16] in late August 2021, Soumya Swaminathan said India may be in some stage of endemicity where the country learns to live with the virus. [17] India began its vaccination programme on 16 January 2021 with AstraZeneca vaccine ...
Researchers point to an occurrence within the immune system.
The Government of India confirmed India's first case of COVID-19 on 30 January 2020 in the state of Kerala, when a university student from Wuhan travelled back to the state. [24] As the number of confirmed COVID-19 -positive cases approached 500, Modi on 19 March, asked all citizens to observe the 'Janata Curfew' (people's curfew) on Sunday, 22 ...
The first case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kerala (which was also the first reported case in all of India) was confirmed in Thrissur on 30 January 2020. [3] [4] [5] As of 5 April 2022, there have been 65,34,352 confirmed cases, test positivity rate is at 2.04% (13.96% cumulative), with 64,62,811 (98.91%) recoveries and 68,197 (1.04%) deaths in the state.