The Odisha Government has decided to set up one more plasma therapy unit for covid-19 patients taking the total number of such units in the state to six.&nbsp; This was revealed in a review meeting held by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in capital Bhubaneswar yesterday.&nbsp;<br />''<br />''Mr. Patnaik directed to set up the unit in the Saheed Laxman Nayak Medical College and Hospital in the tribal dominated Koraput district in a week's time.&nbsp; It was also decided in the meeting to make a location-specific strategy in Khordha, Cuttack, Sundargarh and Rayagada districts to bring down the positive rate of covid-19 infection.<br />''<br />''As per the state government, a whooping 50 lakh people including members of Panchayati Raj institutions, Self Help Groups and Covid Committees have been trained in Covid-19 management.&nbsp; The government has now decided to rope in this vast and trained manpower to sensitize people on the need for more and more home isolation amid a growing number of asymptomatic covid-19 cases in the state. &nbsp;<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, the state has increased its testing capacity which now hovers around 50 thousand sample tests per day thereby making it a leading state in the country with 1096 tests per million people per day. &nbsp;<br />''<br />''As of midnight last Monday, Odisha has recorded a cumulative Covid-19 caseload of 64533, recovery of 45314 and a death count of 362. Of late, the state has been reporting a positive rate below 5% and a fatality rate below 0.6 per cent–both being lower than the national average.<br />
News On AIR | August 19, 2020 8:23 AM
Odisha govt to set up one more plasma therapy unit for covid-19 patients