India now better equipped mentally to deal with Covid-19 crisis: Harsh Vardhan

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday said India is now better equipped mentally, intellectually and morally to fight the novel coronavirus pandemic. He said this while recalling how India had overcome the Covid-19 surge in the last one year. He further said the services for Covid-19 patients and also non-Covid-19 patients should not be compromised, whatever the situation will be.

Harsh Vardhan said he will visit Delhi's All India Institute Of Medical Science (AIIMS) on Friday morning. "In view of disturbing trend of rising Covid-19 cases in Delhi, I’ll visit various healthcare facilities over next few days to asses and further scale up facilities. Starting with AIIMS trauma centre at 08:30 AM, today," he tweeted early Friday.

India on Friday clocked a record 2,17,353 Covid-19 cases and 1,185 deaths due to infection in the past 24 hours, according to the Union health ministry, taking the caseload in the country to over 1.42 crore. The top three states that have registered maximum Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours are Maharashtra with 61,695 cases, followed by Uttar Pradesh with 22,339 cases, and Delhi with 16,699 Covid-19 cases.

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