Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare
India
Daily New Cases at around
30K for the past three days
Posted On: 02 DEC
2020 11:30AM by PIB
There has been a sustained decrease in the number of
active cases.
The daily new cases added to the country’s COVID numbers
have been around 30K since the past three days. The number of daily new cases
in the last 24 hours is 36,604.
43,062 cases recovered and discharged in the last 24 hours. The
number of daily recovered cases has surpassed the daily new cases since the
past five days
The difference in New Recoveries outnumbering New Cases
has also improved the Recovery Rate to 94.03% today.
The total recovered cases stand at 89,32,647. The gap between Recovered
Cases and Active Cases, that is steadily increasing, has crossed 85L today and
presently stands at 85,04,003.
78.35% of the new recovered cases are observed to be
concentrated in 10 States/UTs.
77.25% of the new
cases are from 10
States and UTs.
Kerala reported the highest daily new cases at 5,375. It
is followed by
501 case fatalities have been reported in the past
24 hours.
Ten States/UTs account for 79.84% of
new deaths.
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Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare
Health Ministry releases SOP on
Preventive Measures in Markets to contain spread of COVID-19
Posted On: 02 DEC
2020 2:03PM by PIB
Ministry of Health
& Family Welfare has issued Standard operating Procedures (SOPs) on the
preventive and precautionary measures to be followed to contain the spread of
COVID19 in the country. These are as follows:
1. Background
The Health Ministry in
recognition of the fact that marketplaces are visited by large number of people
for their daily needs, shopping,entertainment, and food has designed a protocol
to contain the spread of COVID-19. Amid COVID pandemic, with gradual opening of
economic activities,markets are witnessing high footfalls. Such large
gatherings, without observance of COVID19 appropriate behaviour have the
potential to spread Coronavirus disease.
2. Scope
This document outlines various generic
precautionary measures to be adopted in addition tospecific measures to be
ensured at marketplaces to prevent spread of COVID-19. These guidelines shall
be applicable to both retail and wholesale markets. Some of the bigger markets
may also have malls/ hyper/ supermarkets in them.
For such establishments, the guidelines issued
earlier by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (available at https://www.mohfw.gov.in/pdf/4SoPstobefollowedinShoppingMalls.pdf) shall apply.
For restaurants, with in marketplaces, the
earlier guidelines issued by the Ministry (https://www.mohfw.gov.in/pdf/3SoPstobefollowedinRestaurants.pdf) shall apply.
Similarly, for offices, religious places/places
of worship, training institutes, yoga institutes andgymnasiums, cinema
halls/theatres and any other specific activities which are part of thesemarkets
or are situated within the market complex, specific guidelines issued from time
to timeby the Ministry shall be applicable.
Market places in
containment zones shall remain closed. Only those outside containmentzones will
be allowed to open-up.
3. Protecting vulnerable populations
Persons above 65 years
of age, persons with comorbidities, pregnant women, and childrenbelow the age
of 10 years are advised to stay at home, except for essential and health
purposes.Market Owners Associations shall be advised accordingly.
Employees who are at
higher risk i.e. older employees, pregnant employees and employees who have
underlying medical conditions must take extra precautions.
The Market
Associations shall be advised that such persons should not be exposed to any
front-line work requiring directcontact with the public.
4. Promoting COVID Appropriate Behaviour
Simple public health
measures are to be followed to reduce the risk of COVID-19. Thesemeasures need
to be observed at all times by shop and establishment owners, visitors,
andworkers.
These measures include:
i. Physical distancing
of at least 6 feet to be followed as far as feasible.
ii. Use of face
covers/masks to be made mandatory.
iii. Practice frequent
hand washing with soap (for at least 40-60 seconds) even when hands are not
visibly dirty. Use of alcohol-based hand sanitizers (for at least 20 seconds)
can be made outside shops and other places wherever feasible.
iv. Respiratory
etiquettes to be strictly followed. This involves strict practice of covering
one’s mouth and nose while coughing/sneezing with a tissue /handkerchief /
flexed elbow and disposing off used tissues properly.
v. Self-monitoring of
health by all and reporting any illness at the earliest to state and district
helpline.
vi. Spitting shall be
strictly prohibited.
vii. Installation
& use of AarogyaSetu App shall be advised to all.
5. Maintaining healthy environment at marketplaces
In normal times,
markets are usually crowded with high footfalls, suffer from lack of adequate
sanitation amenities
and have poor hygiene conditions. To prevent the risk of transmission of
COVID, it is crucial
that healthy environment is maintained at marketplaces.
This includes:
i. Prior to resumption
of daily activities, all work areas inside the shop shall be sanitized (using
1% Sodium Hypochlorite solution) by shop owners.
ii. Cleaning and
regular disinfection of frequently touched surfaces (door knobs/handles,
elevator buttons, hand rails, chairs, table tops, counters, etc.) and floors,
walls, etc. to be done before opening of shops, at the end of the day and at
other appropriate times.
iii. Entrance to the
shops to have mandatory hand hygiene (sanitizer dispenser) arrangement.
iv. Where cars are
repositioned by parking lot employees, proper disinfection of steering,door
handles, keys, etc. of the vehicles should be undertaken by the owner before
the vehicle is used again.
v. Public utility
areas and open spaces shall be sanitized with 1% Sodium Hypochlorite solution.
This shall be done on a regular basis.
vi. Deep cleansing of
the toilets, hand washing and drinking water stations shall be done at least
3-4 times daily.
vii. The market
associations shall facilitate maintaining healthy environment of public utility
areas and open spaces through their own means and through local urban bodies/civic
agencies.
Detailed guidelines
are available at
https://www.mohfw.gov.in/pdf/Guidelinesondisinfectionofcommonpublicplacesinclud
ingoffices.pdf
6. Planning for COVID related appropriate behaviour at
marketplaces
6.1 Self-regulating COVID appropriate behaviour in
marketplaces
COVID appropriate
behaviour in marketplaces may be self-regulated by Market Associations through
a number of measures such as:
i. Creation of a
Sub-Committee for each market to facilitate and monitor implementation of COVID
appropriate behaviour in marketplaces (within shops and establishments as well
as outside).
ii. Mask dispensing
kiosks at Government approved rates may be set up at entry points and parking
lots.
iii. Provision of
distribution of free masks for those who cannot afford.
iv. Establishing hand
washing stations in public utility areas and ensuring availability of soap and
water. Use of foot operated taps and contactless soap dispensers is recommended.
v. Providing mass
thermal screening provisions at the entry/ access points to the market.
vi. Procuring thermal
guns, sanitizers, disinfectants for sanitization of public utility areas.
vii. Placement of IEC
materials and signages regarding COVID appropriate behavior in prominent
locations.
6.2 Ensuring COVID appropriate behaviour by Enforcement
Agencies.
Where self- regulatory
approach fails or lacks impact, the planning shall also entail taking
enforcement actions, wherever warranted. This may include:
i. Levying of
fines/penalties on defaulters for not wearing mask/face cover, or for not
following physical distancing norms.
ii. Exploring the
option of allowing markets/shops to open on alternate days
iii. Closure of markets
in case larger number of cases are getting reported which are found to be
having epidemiological links with the market by the administration.
6.3 Planning for ensuring COVID appropriate behaviours by
shop owners/utilities operating in the market
Owners shall ensure:
i. Physical distancing
of a minimum of 6 feet inside and outside the shops/utilities, specific
markings on the floor may be made.
ii. Queue management
inside and outside the shops/utilities.
iii. They shall deploy
sufficient personnel to monitor the queue as per physical distancing norms.
iv. Keep provision of
triple layer masks/ face covers for clients entering shops/utilities without
masks
v. Provisioning of
hand sanitizers at the entry of the shop/establishment for sanitizing the hands
of the visitors. Thermal screening provisions, to the extent feasible, for
monitoring of body temperature of workers and clients.
vi. Suitable
arrangements for contact-less payment, wherever applicable.
6.4. Ensuring ventilation
i. As far as feasible,
natural ventilation must be ensured and use of small enclosed spaces must be
discouraged.
ii. Circulation of
outdoor air needs to be increased, as much as possible, by opening windows and
doors, using fans, or other methods.
iii. For
air-conditioning/ventilation, of closed enclosures, the guidelines of CPWD
shall be followed which emphasizes that the temperature setting of all air
conditioning devices should be in the range of 24-300 C, relative humidity
should be in the range of 40-70%, intake of fresh air should be as much as
possible and cross ventilation should be adequate. Air handling unit needs to
be cleaned prior to switching on.
6.5. Crowd management
Crowd density does not
remain the same throughout. It usually peaks during evening hours on weekdays.
On weekends and holidays, marketplaces are crowded for most of the day till
late in the evening. Planning should specifically factor-in requirement for these
peak days/ hours. Several strategies can be worked out by the law enforcing
agencies in collaboration with Market Associations to manage crowd.
These include:
i. Engaging Civil
Defence volunteers/ Home Guards/ volunteers etc to regulate crowd.
ii. Access control at
parking lots for limiting vehicle entry.
iii. Separate entry
and exit, if feasible, with unidirectional flow of visitors.
iv. Roads within the
marketplaces may be made vehicle free (including cycle/ electricRickshaws) and
secured only for pedestrians / bicycles as far as possible.
v. Strict penal action
against illegal parking on market roads may be taken by law enforcing
authorities.
vi. Vehicle may only
be allowed to be parked in assigned parking lots. Proper crowd management in
the parking lots and outside the premises – duly following physical distancing
norms to be ensured.
vii. CCTV monitoring
may be considered to detect overcrowding.
viii. Staggered time
of shops/utilities thereby allowing them to remain open for longer duration may
be explored.
ix. Effective crowd
management in specific cases of local metro rail stoppages at stations directly
feeding into markets.
x. Provision for
online booking of groceries/ items and delivery at doorstep must be encouraged.
The staff for home deliveries to be screened thermally by the vendors prior to
allowing home deliveries.
xi. Incentive /
discounts for those who shop during non-peak hours may be considered.
6.6 Creating awareness
i. Provisions must be
made for display of Posters/standees/AV media on preventive measures against
COVID-19 at prominent places in the market area. Do’s and Don’ts also to be
displayed at vantage points.
ii. Recorded messages
on precautionary measures and COVID appropriate behavior may be played through
AV systems installed in the market premises.
iii. The mobile
application or website of the shops, if available, must display preventive
measures for COVID-19 at their landing page. The website/
iv. Display State
Helpline numbers and also numbers of local health authorities at prominent
places.
6.7. Making available COVID related supplies
i. Appropriate
arrangements for personal protection devices like face covers/masks, and other
logistics like hand sanitizers, soap, sodium hypochlorite solution (1%) etc.
shall be made available by shop owners for their employees as per requirements.
The Market Associations shall procure the same for sanitization of public
utility areas.
ii. Provide an
adequate supply of calibrated thermal guns.
iii. Ensure
availability of covered dustbins and trash cans in sufficient numbers to
managewaste as per CPCB guidelines (available at:
https://cpcb.nic.in/uploads/Projects/BioMedical-Waste/BMWGUIDELINES-
COVID_1.pdf)
7. Maintaining healthy operations at marketplaces
i. Shop owners,
employees and visitors living in containment zones shall not be allowed entry
into marketplaces.
ii. At the entry point
of shops, all employees/ visitors to undergo mandatory hand hygiene (sanitizer
dispenser) and thermal screening. Only asymptomatic employees /visitors shall
be allowed inside shops.
iii. All
employees/visitors to be allowed entry only if using face cover/masks. The face
cover/mask has to be worn at all times inside and outside shops.
iv. Staggering of
visitors to be done for maintaining physical distancing of a minimum of6 feet,
when queuing up at the time of entry.
v. Number of customers
inside the shop to be kept at a minimum, to maintain the physical distancing
norms.
vi. Seating arrangement
inside shops, if any, to ensure 6 feet between chairs, benches etc. as far as
feasible.
vii. Number of people
in the elevators shall be restricted, duly maintaining physical distancing
norms. viii. Use of escalators with one person on alternate steps may be
encouraged.
ix. The shop keeper/
staff to perform handwash / use of hand sanitizer frequently
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Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare
Health Ministry’s telemedicine
service e Sanjeevani completes 9 lakh consultations
Since its rolling in
November 2019, eSanjeevani AB-HWC completed over 1,83,000 consultations in a
year
Over 7,16,000 consultations recorded on eSanjeevani OPD
Posted On: 02 DEC
2020 3:47PM by PIB
In a landmark achievement, eSanjeevani, Health Ministry’s
national telemedicine initiative today completed 9 lakh consultations. The top
ten States with highest consultations through eSanjeevani and eSanjeevaniOPD
platforms are Tamil Nadu (2,90,770), Uttar Pradesh (2,44,211), Kerala (60,401),
Madhya Pradesh (57,569), Gujarat (52,571), Himachal Pradesh (48,187), Andhra
Pradesh (37,681), Uttarakhand (29,146), Karnataka (26,906), and
Telemedicine is a new modality for remote diagnosis and
treatment of patients over internet. eSanjeevani enables virtual meetings
between the patients and doctors & specialists from geographically
dispersed locations, through video conferencing that occurs in real time. At
the end of these remote consultations, eSanjeevani generates an electronic
prescriptions which can be used for sourcing medicines. In order to enable
delivery of outpatient services remotely during COVID-19 pandemic as many as 28
States have on-boarded the Ministry of Health’s eSanjeevani initiative. These
States are aggressively working towards long term enablement of telemedicine
services.
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has launched two
variants of eSanjeevani namely - doctor to doctor (eSanjeevani AB-HWC) in hub
and spoke model and patient to doctor (eSanjeevaniOPD). It has been one year
now that eSanjeevani Ayushman Bharat-HWC was rolled out. Andhra Pradesh was the
first State to roll out eSanjeevaniAB-HWC services in November 2019 and since
then around 240 hubs and over 5000 spokes have been set up by various States.
eSanjeevani AB-HWC has completed over 1,83,000 consultations.
eSanjeevaniOPD is a telemedicine variant for public to
seek health services remotely, it was rolled out on 13th of April 2020 during
the first lockdown in the country. So far, over 7,16,000 consultations have
been recorded on eSanjeevaniOPD that is hosting over 240 online OPDs which
include general OPDs and speciality OPDs. Both the variants of eSanjeevani are
rapidly evolving in terms of use and capacity and functionalities.
eSanjeevani Team at C-DAC Mohali is closely working with
Ministry of Health to address the requirements of States. The Health Ministry
is in regular touch with States to formulate strategies for extending the reach
of eSanjeevani services to the underprivileged section of the society too. Few
States like Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat etc., are experimenting various
models to provision eSanjeevani services for non-IT savvy as well as poor
patients who do not have access to the Internet.
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Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare
Dr Harsh Vardhan chairs inaugural
session of the India Sweden Healthcare Innovation Centre - Annual Conference
“Inclusion of Policy
makers, Academia and Industry will play a key role in Innovation”
Dr. Harsh Vardhan on post COVID Health Collaboration: “We can no longer work in
silos. We have to create global synergies like never before.”
Posted On: 02 DEC
2020 6:24PM by PIB
Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare
today chaired the
inaugural session of the annual conference of the India Sweden Healthcare
Innovation Centre – ‘health talks,’ under Sweden India Nobel memorial week.
Reminding everyone
that the cooperation in the field of health between the two countries has been
long standing for which the 10th year celebration took place in 2019 with much
adulation, the Minister said, “We all remember the event that saw the
inauguration of the
India-Sweden Healthcare Innovation Centre by King of Sweden Gustaf the 16th in 2019.”
Expressing his
pleasure that the cooperation between the two countries has bloomed into a
multi-stakeholder relationship, Dr. Harsh Vardhan noted “The inclusion of
policy makers, academia and industry will play a key role in innovation and I
look forward to the synergies being created in the process.”
Speaking on COVID, Dr.
Harsh Vardhan said, “No conversation on healthcare today is complete without
underlining the massive challenge that the planet has faced in the last ten
months on account of the COVID19 pandemic. However, each challenge also has a
silver lining to it. The global pandemic has taught us that our shared
challenges also require shared responsibilities. Collaborations and synergies
have become the order of the day. We can no longer work in silos. We have to
create global synergies like never before.”
He continued in this
regard, “It is on the same lines that our two honourable Prime Ministers have
expressed the desire to enhance cooperation between the two nations. During
this time, I too had the opportunity to deliberate with the Swedish Health
Minister.” He added that he looked forward to hearing about the strategic plans
emerging from the Joint Working Group set-up under the MoU which is going to
meet next week, to further increase health cooperation between the two
countries.
Applauding the
positive outcomes resulting from the bilateral MoU, Dr.Harsh Vardhan said, “The
India Sweden Healthcare Innovation Centre is also in the process of setting up
a Centre of Excellence at AIIMS Jodhpur on Cancer Care. This will help patients
to better understand and manage their disease, the treatment plan and the
prognosis. It will also help them to manage complex medication regimes, ensure
treatment compliance and minimize complications resulting in improving quality
of life for patients and caregivers.”
Dr. Harsh Vardhan was
also invited to witness the announcement of the winners of the first Innovation
Challenge of the Centre; as many as 8 problem statements across therapy areas
including NCDs and COVID19 were identified and startups across
Congratulating the
winners, Dr. Harsh Vardhan said, “In
India we have a lot of Innovation, the challenge is to scale these ideas, and
we support the vision of the Centre towards supporting the scale up within and
outside
Mr. Klas Molin,
Ambassador of Sweden to India, Mr. Niclas Jacobson, Deputy DG & Head of
Division for EU & International Affairs, Ministry of Health and Social
Affairs, Government of Sweden, Mr. Anders Tofte, Swedish Trade Commissioner to
India were also present in the event
Dr. Randeep Guleria,
Director, AIIMS New Delhi, Dr. Sanjeev Misra, Director, AIIMS Jodhpur, Dr.
Kuldeep Singh and Dr. Minu Vajpayee (AIIMS New Delhi) represented the medical
community.
Sh. Rajesh Bhushan,
Union Health Secretary, Sh. Nilambuj Sharan, Economic Advisor, Sh. Lav Agarwal,
Jt. Secretary, and other senior officials were present from the Health Ministry.
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WHO World Malaria Report
2020: India continues
to make Impressive Gains in reduction of Malaria Burden
India
the only high endemic country which has reported a decline of 17.6% in 2019
over 2018
India
Posted On: 02 DEC
2020 11:25AM by PIB
The World Malaria
Report (WMR) 2020 released by WHO, which gives the estimated cases for malaria
across the world, based on mathematical projections, indicates that India has
made considerable progress in reducing its malaria burden.
Figure 1: Epidemiological trends of Malaria in
Decrease in incidence
of Malaria cases is also exhibited in the year-on-year tally. The cases and
fatalities have declined significantly by 21.27% and 20% in the year 2019
(3,38,494 cases, 77 deaths) as compared to 2018 (4,29,928 cases, 96 deaths). The total number of malaria cases reported in
2020, till October, (1,57,284) has further decreased by 45.02 percent as
compared to corresponding period of 2019 (2,86,091).
Malaria Elimination
efforts were initiated in the country in 2015 and were intensified after the
launch of National Framework for Malaria Elimination (NFME) in 2016 by the
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. National Strategic Plan for Malaria
Elimination (2017-22) was launched by the Health Ministry in July, 2017 which
laid down strategies for the next five years.
Figure 2: Epidemiological situation of Malaria in
The first two years
saw a 27.7% decline in cases and 49.5% reduction in fatalities; 11,69,261 cases
and 385 deaths in 2015to 8,44,558 cases and 194 deaths in 2017.
States of Odisha,
Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Meghalaya and Madhya Pradesh disproportionately
accounted for nearly 45.47 percent (1,53,909 cases out of
Due to the efforts
made by the Government of India in provision of microscopes, rapid diagnostics
Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) – about 5 crores have been distributed
in 7 North-East States, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha up to
2018-19 and another 2.25 crore LLINs are being supplied/distributed during
current financial year to high burden areas leading to reduction in endemicity
in these otherwise very high endemic states. Additional procurement of 2.52
crore LLINs is initiated.Use of LLINs has been accepted by the community at
large and has been one of the main contributors to the drastic malaria decline
in the country.
Decline of API in HBHI (High Burden High Impact) Regions of
WHO has initiated the
High Burden to High Impact (HBHI) initiative in 11 high malaria burden
countries, including
Malaria has been made
notifiable in 31 states/UTs (Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam,
Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir,
Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland,
Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, , Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura Uttar
Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Pudducherry Chandigarh, Daman & Diu,
D&N Haveli and Lakshadweep) and decline has been observed in the hitherto
high endemic states. Percentage of decline in the year 2019 as compared
to 2018 is as follows: Odisha – 40.35%, Meghalaya- 59.10%, Jharkhand – 34.96%,
Madhya Pradesh –36.50% and Chhattisgarh –23.20%.
The figures and trends between last two decades
clearly show the drastic decline in malaria. The malaria elimination target of
2030 looks achievable building on the Union Government’s strategic
interventions in this regard.
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