new delhi the union health ministry on thursday said the period of lockdown has been gainfully utilised to ramp up the health infrastructure with around 3027 dedicated covid19 hospitals and 7013 care centers being readied across the country to fight the diseasethe announcement came after some media reports questioned the countrys preparedness to deal with the highly infectious diseasethere are reports in a section of the media about some decisions of the government regarding the lockdown implementation and response to covid19 management the period of the lockdown has been gainfully utilised to ramp up the health infrastructure in the country the ministry saidas on date 45299 people have recovered from coronavirus taking the countrys recovery rate to 4032 per cent it saidmore on covid19coronavirus pandemic complete coveragelockdown 40 whats allowed and whats not in the three zonesits time to mask up and stay safe join tois maskindia campaignmhas guidelines for home isolationtrust the newspaper for your daily verified newsmore than 281 lakh isolation beds 31250 icu beds and 109888 oxygen supported beds have already been identified in dedicated covid19 hospitals and health centers also 650930 isolation beds have been readied in covid19 care centres the ministry saida total of 2615920 samples have been tested and 103532 samples were tested in the last 24 hours through 555 testing labs 391 in the government sector and 164 private labs the ministry saidthe indian council of medical research icmr in collaboration with the health ministry and the national centre for disease control with support from state health departments and key stakeholders including who india is conducting a community based serosurvey to estimate the prevalence of the coronavirus infection among the indian populationthe central government has supplied 650 lakh personal protective equipment ppe coveralls and 10107 lakh n95 masks to the statesnearly 3 lakh ppe coveralls and n95 masks each are now being manufactured per day by domestic producers these were not produced in the country earlier the ministry said in a statementin addition the government is consulting and involving epidemiologists actively at all levels in order to combat covid19 live updates coronavirus pandemicthe national task force ntf for covid19 constituted by the icmr has held 20 meetings since midmarch and has systematically and effectively contributed towards the scientific and technical response to the pandemic the statement said a team of researchers from the jawaharlal nehru centre for advanced scientific research jncasr an autonomous institute under the staterun department of science and technology dst along with collaborators from iisc bengaluru have developed a heuristic predictive model for covid19 that provides shortterm predictions about the evolution of the disease and the medical needs that are generated as a consequence the ministry saidthe department of biotechnology dbt and its psu biotechnology industry research assistance council birac have announced a covid19 research consortium call to support diagnostics vaccines novel therapeutics repurposing of drugs or any other intervention for control of the diseasevarious policy announcements particularly the pradhan manrtri garib kalyan yojana and atmanirbhar bharat abhiyaan have been