Media Bulletin No.78

STATE CONTROL ROOM

DIRECTOR HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

ANDHRA PRADESH

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the Corona Virus

Disease

Pandemic. The WHO also classified risk assessment as Very High at the Global

level.

The Government of Andhra Pradesh nas undertaken several measures

c vedeOpreventon, contaonment and

ncl

rol of

A) Highlights:

Hon'ble Chief Ministers Message: "No To Panic, Yes to Precautions'

1 new COVD-19 pOsitive case has been detected today trom Visakhapatnam

District. He is a contact ot Patient no. 7 who has returned from Birmingham.

He got into contact with patient no. 7 on 17th March 2020 and got admitted

into hospital on 21st March 2020 and has been in hospital isolation since then.

he siddhartha Medical College, Vijayawada &Rangaraya Medical college,

Kakinada labs have been confirmed by ICMR for COvID-19 Testing Sites.

ne colectors in aistricts witn state covD tacilities nave been instructed to

make a necessary inirastructural and personnel arrangements to make ne

New contact tracing guidelines have been communicated to the District

Administration for more effective contact tracing

increase the ICU capacity to 2,680 and ventilator capacity to 330.

In the four State COVID-19 hospitals, arrangements are being made to

13 Private Medical colleges in all districts are being designated as District

special covID-19 hospitals.

A total of 23,479 beds have been arranged at District HQ and sub districts

levels for Quarantine facilities.

Arrangements have been made for supply of 5.45 lakh N-95 Masks & 1.3 lakh

PPES Tor SARS-COV2 (COvID-19.

A COVID-19 instant order 5 hasbeen issued to the District collectors to

nnelate ngage ne Servceso mecproessonis o Dotn pubnc nd

private medical institutions. Further a public call to enlist the vuntary / paid