Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Apr 1: Additional principal secretary in the department of health and family welfare Jawaid Akhtar, said that samples of raw materials which were imported from China by a pharmaceutical company in Nanjangud have been sent for testing as certain employees of the company tested positive for COVID-19 in spite of not travelling abroad and having no contact with the affected persons.

He noted that after coronavirus infection was found in one of the employees of the said concern, nine more employees of this company suffered from similar symptoms. Therefore, it was decided to investigate the very source of the infection, he revealed.

Akhtar said that Indian Institute of Science here has manufactured coronavirus testing kits and the same has been sent to Indian Medical Research Centre for testing. Once the approval comes, the government will acquire these kits, he stated.

The official further clarified that the government is planning to buy 1,000 ventilators and order for 471 ventilators has already been placed. Nine of them have been received, and they are being installed, he added.