PM Modi: Ventilators needed for 'very few' COVID-19 patients currently

Continuing with his consultations with state governments on ways to check the spread of coronavirus during 'unlock 1.0', Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday held an interaction with chief ministers and representatives of 14 states and the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

The number of patients who have recovered from COVID-19 till now is more than the number of active cases in the country, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Also, at present, ventilator and ICU care are needed for very few patients across the country. We have been able to fight COVID-19 and control its spread because of the timely measures taken by us, said Modi.

He further said, "Just 3 months back, there was shortage of PPE kits & diagnostic kits across the world. In India too, we had a very limited stock because we were completely dependent on imports. But today, more than 1 crore PPE kits & equal no. of N95 masks have reached the states."

He also emphasized on expansion of health infrastructure saying, "With increase in number of corona patients,expansion of health infrastructure should be our utmost priority.This will happen when each corona patient will get proper treatment, for this we'll have to emphasize on testing so that we can test,trace & isolate infected person.