New Delhi: The United Nations helps India in its battle in opposition to the second and extra extreme wave of Covid-19 infections, a UN spokesperson revealed.
As said by him, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) are procuring tools and provides which embody 7,000 oxygen concentrators and 500 nasal units for oxygen provide, in addition to oxygen-generating vegetation, Covid-19 testing machines, and private protecting kits for the remedy of Covid sufferers in India.
The UN workforce in India, led by Resident Coordinator Renata Lok-Dessallien, is supporting the authorities’ response to the pandemic by offering tools and provides, together with to native governments, deputy spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Farhan Haq, mentioned on Wednesday.
The organisation is aiding in establishing cell hospital items and can be offering for laboratories. About 2,600 WHO discipline officers have been deployed on a direct foundation to help well being authorities.
UNICEF concerned consultants to work on threat governance in Maharashtra, a state which was as soon as once more witnessing the worst Coronavirus scenario in India.
Farhan Haq was addressing a every day press briefing in New York when he additionally revealed that the UN workforce in India is continuous its marketing campaign to focus on the three Ws: Wear a masks, Wash your Hands, Watch your distance and keep six toes aside.
India alone accounted for 38 p.c of all new Covid-19 circumstances recorded worldwide within the seven-day interval that ended on April 25. India additionally reported a 93 p.c week-on-week enhance within the variety of coronavirus-related deaths final week. In the previous seven days, 15,161 individuals misplaced their lives to the virus, the WHO mentioned on Wednesday.
(With Agency Inputs)
