Bengaluru: Health Union Minister of Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya on Sunday asked people not to let the guard against Covid-19 when this disease was controlled but it was not fully lost.
“The fight against Covid will take place in the future because Coronavirus is still among us.
Coronavirus is of course controlled but has not been lost,” Mandaviya said at the launch of the Covid field hospital here.
He appreciated the government of Karnataka for his readiness to deal with health emergencies caused by Covid-19 in the future.
“Dealing with the outbreak of disease depends on the government’s thought.
The Karnataka government has decided to establish a special field hospital in remote areas, which shows how ready to face the outbreak in the future,” Mandaviya said.
He also praised the state government to take vaccines to the household level and reach the target of vaccination in an extraordinary way.
“I congratulate the ministerial head that 83% of the qualified population received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine managed in the country,” the Union Minister said.
According to him, the Council of India for the medical research panel said that those who took the first dose of vaccines to 97 percent safe, said Mandaviya.
He also praised Karnataka for maximum Covid vaccination on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday.
“The way the vaccination drive occurs in Karnataka and the vaccine is brought to every extraordinary village.
Great countries like Karnataka have made a fight against Covid-19 in a way that is exemplary,” said Mandaviya.