Himachal Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Friday said that the possibility of imposing a lockdown in the coming days cannot be ruled in the state. "The cases are increasing every day and states have imposed lockdown and weekend curfews. We will also consider the same whenever required in the state," the Chief Minister said while talking to the mediapersons after holding a review meeting regarding COVID-19 situation.
He said that there is adequate availability of medicines, oxygenated beds, masks and sanitizers etc. in the state.
During the meeting, Thakur directed the Health Department to enhance the capacity of oxygenated beds in the hospitals.So far, 13,60,794 people have been screened for COVID-19 through RT-PCR, rapid antigen test, True-Nat and CV-Nat and the testing rate of the state was 194399 per ten lakh, he said.11,87,275 doses of COVID vaccines have been provided so far in the state, he added.