The Centre is continuously identifying emerging “hotspots” of Covid-19 infection and employing a rigorous cluster containment strategy, added Agarwal. As we are dealing with a communicable disease, the government does not want to assign a particular number by which it decides to declare an area to be a 'hotspot', reiterated Agarwal.
The ministry has also framed essential features for ventilators to be used for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. The features have been designed in collaboration with the Director-General (Life Sciences), Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO).
According to health ministry officials: "It has been done to ensure availability of essential and very important medical equipment in the view of COVID-19. These features of ventilators include that the machine should be turbine/compressor based because the installation sites might not have central oxygen lines."
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