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In a Covid-19 press conference Thursday, Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Union Heath Ministry said that the total number of Covid-19 cases in India had reached 5,734 and 166 people have died due from the disease so far. He also said there was no need to believe rumours or be fearful about the lack of PPEs as orders to manufacture 1.7 crore PPEs had already been placed with 20 companies in the country. Orders for 49,000 ventilators had also been placed and their supply was underway. Ten teams of Covid-19 specialists had been sent to 9 States, Aggarwal added. According to Dr Gangakhedkar of ICMR, 1,30,000 samples have been tested for COVID-19 so far. Punya Salila Srivastava, Joint Secretary, MHA said a control room had been set up the Home Ministry to help people stranded due to the lockdown, which has been resolving about 300 cases every day.





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