District collectors and health officials have been directed to undertake structural, electrical and fire audit of health establishments and to keep isolation as well as oxygen beds ready.
Dr Swaminathan said that that the WHO had just declared the end of a public health emergency but never said it was the end of the pandemic or that we should lower the guard rails.
In May this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Covid-19 was no longer a public health emergency, but urged all nations to keep up surveillance to monitor changing trends in cases.
Omicron, a COVID-19 strain first discovered in 2021, has mutated dozens of times and now dominates global virus strains. As it reaches its two-year anniversary, virologists are reckoning with a virus mutation that isn t following a normal path.