IAF provides medical at COVID-19 lockdown:
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has received ongoing support in the war against Coronavirus through the provision of medical supplies to all the country states. Medical supplies are transported to equip the state governments/Union Territories (UTs) and supporting agencies to combat the contagion effectively and efficiently.
IAF Measures:
♦ IAF has provided essential medical supplies and commodities from nodal points to Manipur, Nagaland, and Gangtok in the North-Eastern region and the Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh.
♦ An-32 aircraft of IAF airlifted personnel and 3500 kg of medical equipment of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) from Chennai to Bhubaneshwar for setting up testing labs and facilities in Odisha.
♦ IAF has allocated aircraft at nodal points to airlift medical supplies and equipment at short notice to proactively support operations against COVID-19.
IAF:
Founded on: 8 October 1932
Headquarters: New Delhi
Commander-in-Chief: President Ram Nath Kovind
Chief of the Air Staff (CAS): Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria
Vice Chief of the Air Staff (VCAS): Air Marshal Harjit Singh Arora
IAF is a part of the Indian Armed Forces. IAF is responsible to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during armed conflict.
Home Minister directed BSF to tighten vigil along Pakistan, Bangladesh borders:
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has directed the Border Security Force (BSF) to strengthen vigilance along the Indian borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh, especially in India`s non-fenced areas. The Minister has checked the security of the two borders. The switch comes in the face of outspread coronavirus.
At these two sides, the BSF staff is directed to ensure that no cross-border movement occurs. The Ministry is to ensure that the current lockdown on coronavirus is implemented.
BSF:
Formed on: 1 December 1965
Headquarters: New Delhi, India
Minister responsible: Amit Shah, Minister of Home Affairs
Director-General: V K Johri
BSF is one of the seven Central Armed Police Forces of India. It is responsible to guard India`s land border during peacetime and prevent transnational crime at the same, it has various active roles during an outbreak of war. BSF functions under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
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Naval Dockyard creates low-cost screening system:
Naval Dockyard (ND), Mumbai has developed its own Infrared Radiation (IR)-based handheld temperature sensor to screen people at gates. The meaning should screen a large number of Naval staff at the yard`s entrance gates the the load on the gate`s safety sentries.
IR-based temperature sensor:
♦ The instrument was manufactured under Rs.1000 through in-house resources.
♦ The accuracy of the instrument is 0.02 deg Celsius.
♦ The non-contact thermometer has an IR and an LED display integrated with a microcontroller that runs on a 9V battery.
♦ The instrument will screen a large number of Naval personnel at the entry gates of the yard thereby reducing the load on the security sentries at the gate.
♦ The low-cost instrument has the capability to scale up production of these if required towards which sourcing of the components is in progress.
Reason:
Over 20,000 personnel enter the premises of the Naval Dockyard of Western Naval Command (WNC) every day. Inorder to prevent the spread of COVID-19 within the yard and the Western Fleet, initial screening of the Navy personnel who enter the dockyard was very important.
The primary method to screen a probable COVID-19 infected person/patient is to check the body temperature by a non-contact thermometer. In the view of the COVID-19 outbreak, the non-contact thermometers and temperature guns have become scarce and are being sold at a very high cost in the country. In order to overcome the scarcity and requirement of large numbers, ND has designed and developed its own handheld IR based temperature sensor.
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