Chandigarh, Nov. 30 -- Punjab Medical Education and Research Minister Dr Raj Kumar Verka has directed the senior officers of the department to tackle the new variant of Corona and launch an effective awareness campaign in this regard.
During a high level meeting with senior officials of Medical Education and Research Department and principals of various medical colleges here, Dr Verka has instructed all medical colleges and hospitals to make effective arrangements to deal with this new variant called Omicron.
Meanwhile, officers told the Minister that 3 VRDLs labs have been set up in government medical colleges for testing corona. These labs have capacity of 35000 RTPCR per day. He was also informed that isolation wards have been set up i...