NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday said that a portal — covidwarriors.gov.in — has been created as a master database of healthcare professionals and volunteers and a total of 1.24 crore corona warriors are now available in the country.
“Covidwarriors.gov.in has been created as a master database of healthcare professionals and volunteers. Till now, details of 1.24 crore human resources of various kinds have been added to it,” said Arun Kumar Panda, Chairman of the Empowered Group-4, which has been mandated with identification of human resources for various COVID-19 related activities.
Panda said that 40,000 Indian Red Cross volunteers are working as corona warriors in 550 districts. “3,500 NCC cadets and 500 NCC staff in 19 states and UTs, and another 47,000 NCC cadets