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The civil aviation ministry has been directed by the union heath department to ensure this.
Union Health Minister Mandaviya said India has started 2 per cent random sampling of international travellers coming to the country and may consider making it mandatory for all if necessary.
The Odisha government has asked all Collectors, district Chief Medical Officers and heads of healthcare institutions to strengthen surveillance.
Chinese cities are currently hit by the highly transmissible Omicron strain, mostly BF.7 which is the main variant spreading in Beijing.
Meanwhile, the Health Ministry has urged all states and UTs to ramp up the whole genome sequencing of positive samples to keep track of newer variants.
Monday's two deaths were the first to be reported by the National Health Commission (NHC) since Dec. 3, days before Beijing announced it was abandoning curbs which had largely kept the virus in check for three years but triggered widespread protests last month.
China is currently in the first of an expected three waves of COVID cases this winter, according to the country's chief epidemiologist, Wu Zunyou. Cases could multiply across the country if people follow typical travel patterns of returning to their home areas in a mass transit movement for the Lunar New Year holiday next month.
'COVID-19 is "the loudest wake-up call in more than a century to our vulnerability to outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases.'
China's National Health Commission on Friday said it was ramping up vaccinations and building stocks of ventilators
Vaccines alone will take more than a decade to show their impact but early recognition of pre-cancerous and cancerous lesions will be possible through mass screening.