Centre Allow Export Of India-Built Ventilators As COVID Fatality Rate Fall To 2.15%

Centre Allow Export Of India-Built Ventilators As COVID Fatality Rate Fall To 2.15%

New Delhi: The high-level Group of Ministers on coronavirus has agreed to the proposal of the health ministry to allow the export of the indigenous ventilators.

The decision was taken the nation continues to maintain a progressively declining low rate of the fatalities among the coronavirus patients, which currently stands at 2.15 percent, "which means fewer active cases are on ventilators", said the Union health ministry.

Across the country as on July 31, only 0.22 percent of the active cases were on ventilators across the country, it stated.

The health ministry said that the GoM's decision has been communicated to the Director-General of Foreign Trade for further action needed to facilitate the export of the ventilators.

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Also, it said that "Now with the export of the ventilators having been allowed, it hoped that domestic ventilators would be in a position to find new markets in foreign countries",it said, added that there has been substantial growth in the domestic manufacturing capacity of ventilators.

More than 20 domestic manufacturers of ventilators, compared to January.

In March a prohibition\restriction on the export of ventilators was imposed to ensure domestic availablity of the machines to effectively fight coronavirus.

For export vide DGFT notification with effect from March 24, all types of ventilators were prohibited with effect from March 24.

(With Inputs from PTI)

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