The mock drill for emergency response for handling Covid-19 was held at JJ Hospital in Mumbai
On Friday, Mansukh Mandaviya, who chaired a review meeting with states, urged them to conduct mock drills of all hospital infrastructure on April 10 and 11 and review the health preparedness with district administrations and health officials
Mandaviya, during the meeting, also urged states to identify emerging hotspots by monitoring trends of influenza-like illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) cases and sending sufficient samples for testing of COVID-19 and Influenza; and ramping up whole genome sequencing of positive sample
Mumbai on Sunday reported as many as 221 new cases of Covid-19. The addition of the fresh cases took the total tally of infections in the city to 11,58,888, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in a health bulletin
No death was reported on April 9, the death toll remained unchanged at 19,749. The recovery count increased by 172 more patients to touch the total number of recoveries to 11,37,705, the bulletin said
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