Dehradun: With the variety of COVID-19 instances on the rise in Uttarakhand, Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat requested his Gujarat counterpart Vijay Rupani on Monday to offer oxygen cylinders to the state.
Rawat spoke to Rupani on the cellphone, an official launch issued right here stated.
ALSO READ | U’khand Cong Leader Kishore Upadhyay Sits On Dharna Against Handling Of Covid Situation In State
The Gujarat chief minister assured Rawat of all attainable assist to cope with the state of affairs, it added.
Meanwhile, state Health Secretary Amit Negi informed reporters that the continued curfew has been prolonged by three extra days in districts with a excessive variety of instances, together with Dehradun, to interrupt the transmission chain of the coronavirus.
The state authorities’s technique to cope with the pandemic is predicated on testing, tracing, isolation, therapy and vaccination of individuals.
The variety of individuals being discharged from hospitals after therapy can be rising, Negi stated, including that 90 per cent of the sufferers are recovering in dwelling isolation.
Two lakh doses of anti-COVID vaccines are more likely to arrive quickly for inoculating individuals above 45 years of age, after which 1.20 lakh extra doses will come, he stated.
