{"id":1469,"date":"2020-03-18T19:16:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T13:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-global-press.pantheonsite.io\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2020-03-18T19:16:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T13:46:39","slug":"who-hails-indias-efforts-to-contain-corona-virus-says-the-commitment-of-govt-and-pmo-is-enormous-very-impressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=1469","title":{"rendered":"WHO hails India\u2019s efforts to contain Corona virus, says the commitment of govt and PMO is enormous, very impressive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The representative of WHO to India, Henk Bekedam said, \u201cThe commitment from the Indian government and the Prime Minister\u2019s Office has been enormous, very impressive. It is one of the reasons why India is still doing quite well. I am very impressed that everyone has been mobilised,\u201d OpIndia <\/a>has reported.<\/p>\n\n\n

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has lauded India\u2019s efforts in curbing the spread of dreadful coronavirus, which has claimed more than 7000 lives and infected 1.82 lac people worldwide. The virus that\u00a0originated\u00a0from Wuhan, China has affected 125 people in India, causing 3 casualties so far.<\/p>\n\n\n

The representative of WHO to India, Henk Bekedam said<\/a>, \u201cThe commitment from the Indian government and the Prime Minister\u2019s Office has been enormous, very impressive. It is one of the reasons why India is still doing quite well. I am very impressed that everyone has been mobilised.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

He added<\/a>, \u201cWe have very good research capacity in India and especially at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and department of health research. They have been able to identify the virus. Now India will continue to be part of the research community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cWe have a simple message to all countries \u2013 test, test, test. All countries should be able to test all suspected cases, they cannot fight this pandemic blindfolded.\u201d WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had\u00a0said\u00a0earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n

India had become the fifth country in the world after Japan, Thailand, USA and China to\u00a0successfully isolate\u00a0the life-threatening Covid-19 strain. The feat was achieved by the scientists at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune where 11 strains of the Covid-19 were isolated from a patient.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cThe strains are the prerequisite for conducting any research related to viruses,\u201d said Raman R. Gangakhedkar, head of the epidemiology and communicable diseases division of the Indian Council of Medical Research.<\/a> This is hailed as the first step towards the development of drugs and vaccines against the pandemic by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).<\/p>\n\n\n

According to reports, the isolated strain has a 99.98% match with the virus in China\u2019s Wuhan. This significant medical breakthrough will help India in developing a vaccine for the deadly Coronavirus. However it will still take one and a half to two years to develop a vaccine, even if the trial procedures are expedited.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The representative of WHO to India, Henk Bekedam said, \u201cThe commitment from the Indian government and the Prime Minister\u2019s Office has been enormous, very impressive. It is one of the reasons why India is still doing quite well. I am very impressed that everyone has been mobilised,\u201d OpIndia has reported. The World Health Organisation (WHO) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":1470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[129,338,339,340],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}