The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Saturday air lifted into Ladakh health equipment weighing 1,700 kilogram, including biosafety closets and centrifuges, that can help strengthen COVID-19 testing centers at the union land, officials said.

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIR-IIIM) at Jammu given the gear.

“The IAF’s Chinook and AN-32 helicopters airlifted that a payload of both 850 kgs each, containing a total of four biosafety closets, two centrifuges along with 2 stabilizers into Leh along with Kargil. The things worth more than 1 crore were given by CSIR-IIIM Jammu for its UT of Ladakh,” Jammu-based Defence PRO Lt-Col Devender Anand mentioned.

this past calendar year, CSIR-IIIM manager D S Reddy had sworn that the apparatus to Ladakh in cooperation with

as a portion of its own corporate social responsibility to fortify COVID-19 testing capacity from the marriage land’s two districts — Leh and Kargil.

The Union Territory of Ladakh has listed 152 fresh CVOID-19 cases, carrying the disease depend on 13,089, as stated by a official lien on Saturday.

Ladakh had listed a total of 135 COVID-related deaths — 9 1 at Leh district and 44 at Kargil district — as the outbreak of this pandemic past calendar year.