In a significant development, the NHPC Limited has provided cold chain equipment to Arunachal Pradesh government under Corporate Social Responsibility for the Covid19 vaccination programme .
A total of 25 Ice lined refrigerators were handed over to Dr E Rumi, state director of family welfare on Friday.
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Prior to this, 13 Deep Freezers were handed over to the Arunachal Pradesh government last week.
The cold chain equipment has been provided at a cost of Rs 29.7 Lakh.
Meanwhile, the Union health ministry has asked the Assam government to implement strong containment measures to contain the spread of Covid19 infection.
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Luv Aggrawal, joint secretary in the health ministry said along with Assam, states like Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Odisha, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Puducherry have been reporting a daily surge in Covid19 cases.
He, however, informed that from 85% of active cases on April 15, it has now come down to 15.1% as of Saturday.
Aggrawal said although the number of daily new cases has been decreasing, the number of daily new deaths has been witnessing a minimal increase.
The Union health ministry statistics said there are 11 states which are witnessing more than 1 lakh active cases and 8 states are witnessing active cases in between 50,000 to 1 lakh.
According to the statistics, there are 24 states with more than 15% positivity.
States like Maharashtra, Delhi, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh among others have been witnessing decrease in daily Covid cases.